Word: coms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Distortions. Confirmed optimists can find selected areas of statistical com fort. Though 555,000 workers remain jobless-a worrisome 2.4% of a labor force accustomed to full employment -the ranks of newly unemployed are now growing only moderately. Because fewer workers are turning out about the same amount of goods, output per man has climbed. But amid rising prices and escalating taxes, few Britons quarrel with Harold Wilson's forecast: 'This is going to be a difficult winter...
...worthless products while bol stering a profitable line of recirculating toilets for aircraft. Stone had acquired this talent shortly after graduating from law school, when overnight he made a reputation - and a pile of cash - as a resuscitator of sick companies for Hous ton Fearless Corp. In 1954, the com pany split up, and he joined International Glass, a former division...
...December in an exclusively security operation named "Fairfax," which is designed to keep the Viet Cong from building up strength too near the capital. The brigade's search partners are not police but Vietnamese Rangers, working in completely integrated "supercompanies" made up of one U.S. and one Vietnamese com pany. The U.S. 9th Division is also involved in intermediate warfare, working closely with the ARVN's 25th Division in Long An province in the Delta. All told, some 50% of U.S. forces in Viet Nam are now engaged in "operations in support of the security structure"-digging...
Strictly speaking, an injunction is simply an order by a court requiring that its interpretation of the law be com plied with. Willful failure to comply is contempt of court, and fines and jail sentences can be imposed. Overuse of the device in the early days of trade unionism made "government by injunction" a burning political issue; by 1930, Felix Frankfurter and Nathan Greene, in a classic book on the subject, were proposing a new law and writing that "injunctions ought never to become rou tine." Two years later, the Norris-La Guardia Act virtually eliminated them in federal courts...
...Chaume La coste, herself a onetime amateur golf champion, have three houses and move with the season. As he has grown older, Lacoste has turned more and more of a broad business empire over to his sons. Bernard Lacoste, 36, a Princeton graduate, bosses the sporting goods com pany, oversees a line that includes sweat ers, socks and tennis-racket covers. Son Francois, 34, a Stanford University-trained physicist, is a research and development director at Lacoste's other major company. In 1934, Lacoste teamed with the Bendix Corp. to form Air Equipement, a French company, to make airplane...