Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if all these strategies were adopted overnight, speeding up productivity might well take a discouragingly long time. The '70s lag in investment and R. and D., in particular, will go on harming productivity well into the '80s. But the effort must be started. A long period of sluggish productivity would mean an era of slow growth, little or no rise in living standards, persistent unemployment and high inflation?just like the '70s, only worse...
...suit, Sears asks the courts to declare its existing affirmative action program to be in full accord with the law. Insists Ray Graham, Sears' director of equal opportunity: "We've made a tremendous effort to comply." He notes that since 1966 the company proportion of women managers has risen from 20% to 36%; of women craftworkers from 3.8% to 8.1%; of black managers from 4% to 7.2%; and of black craftworkers from 2.8% to 8.9%. But the EEOC now demands that 50% of new management positions and 33% of new craft openings be given to women and Sears...
...hiring policies being reviewed by ten different agencies and departments. Now, Sears notes, the 1978 ban on mandatory retirement at 65 leaves fewer job openings for other minorities. A good many businessmen would agree with Sears Chairman Edward Telling when he says that his suit is a needed effort "to cut through conflicting regulation and to force a clarification of irreconcilables...
...chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kennedy has jurisdiction over antitrust matters, and perceiving deregulation to be a popular cause, he is eager to lead it. Illustrating his consummate political showmanship, he managed to get Nader, Kahn and officials of the N.A.M. and A.C.U. to join in blessing his effort...
...first to assume that the disruption of deliveries would be only brief, and little was done to arrange for alternative sources of supply if the troubles continued into winter. Belatedly they are now rushing to get apartments and factories to convert to oil heat-there is also an effort under way to pump Soviet oil down from the main pipeline network to the north. That, however, is an enormous engineering task, and even though the gas-rich U.S.S.R. has a surplus of the fuel available to ease the crunch in the Transcaucasus, the troubles in Iran could be long over...