Word: employed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more evident promise of further promotion?or not hire at all. The minimum wage, says Sociologist Riesman, is the product of "an alliance of the better situated labor unions with the liberals against the deprived and the elderly, whom people would otherwise employ for household or for city work that now doesn't get done." Adds Stanford University Labor Economist Thomas Sowell, a black: "Talk about people being unemployable is just so much rubbish. Everybody is unemployable at one wage rate, and everybody is employable at another." Perhaps not quite everybody. In a free economy, there will always be some...
...reliable service." There were "obvious flaws" in the utility's system to begin with, said the agency. "The design of the transmission network and the protective devices designed to protect the system were inadequate." Then, said the FPC, when lightning bolts struck the system, Con Ed failed to employ emergency measures in time to shed sufficient load, did not put into operation all of its stand-by generating units and did not tell its customers quickly enough to cut their use of power. FPC Chairman Richard L. Dunham called the blackout "clearly intolerable," and his agency recommended ten immediate...
...style arrangements that bring legal aid to middle-income citizens for a flat fee (the United Auto Workers, for instance, has installed such a system for its Chrysler workers). With some exceptions, bar groups have also pushed for expansion of Government legal-assistance programs for the poor (which incidentally employ more lawyers...
...Linowes commission also found that insurance investigators often collect data from neighbors on people's sex lives ("Is she promiscuous?") and marital histories, even though no studies show that either affects life spans or accident rates. The investigations are sometimes shoddy because many firms employ part-time students, off-duty policemen, housewives and retired people as probers. James Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was refused auto insurance by Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco because of phony information obtained from an elderly neighbor, who was mad at Millstone because...
...more modest adventure. Esalen continues to shelter 5,000 people a year, but instead of vagabonds, its climate runs to corporate executives. Innovation can be found in the present climate, but it now occurs quietly, less flamboyantly. Instead of protesting, the University of California's 125,000 students employ a lobbyist (at $84,000 a year) to battle the legislature. Nearly a dozen "open universities" in the Bay Area alone provide a less structured, tutorial approach to learning. The ruddy affluent of Marin County have made holistic medical clinics into community centers that sometimes offer their clients life-style...