Word: contentedness
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Translation, Please. Such success is rare. Japanese industry, of course, has developed an enormous American demand for its export products, but high wage costs have kept all but a handful of Japanese firms from even trying to manufacture in the U.S. Aside from Mitsubishi, Japanese companies own and operate only...
The final step in a slow metamorphosis, made clear by Upstate, is Wilson's more or less contented rejection of the great world for a small village-the New York hamlet of Talcottville (pop. 100), north of Utica. His ancestors lived there, he summered there as a boy, and...
Apolitical. Typical of the elections was the campaigning in the North End, one of the nation's most colorful and tightly knit communities. One victorious candidate, Ted Tomasone, a clerk in the Boston municipal criminal court, had a few posters and a slew of tiny cards printed. Other candidates...
In order to help industry produce inexpensively and expand quickly, workers long had to accept low wages. In return, they received an implied guarantee of lifetime jobs in the companies that they joined fresh out of school. That security has bred one of the world's most contented work forces...
Poor Man's Paradise. The secret of Mao's China can perhaps be summed up in an old Chinese saying: "The contented man, though poor, is happy; the discontented man, though rich, is sad." One reason why the average Chinese appears happy is that the wide disparities of...