Word: employer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel's controlled economy, wage boosts for the doctors would mean another round of wage increases (the last were granted in 1952) for all professional people in government employ. The government, scared of a spiraling inflation, flatly refused the doctors' latest demands...
...service in Congress . . . Most bills bear the names of committee chairmen. The point, therefore, is an altogether technical one. But the plain fact is that, for example, bills for the benefit of veterans did bear my name as author ... I was the original author of the legislation that established "Employ the Physically Handicapped Week" . . . The so-called "rabbit bill" was of benefit, it is true, only to a comparatively few small farmers. But to them it was important...
...Indo-China, then said that on the basis of existing evidence, he considered physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer "a loyal American." Only a short time before, Secretary of Defense Wilson announced, in effect, that even if Oppenheimer's name were cleared, he still should not be allowed back in Government employ...
Best guess was that the new stations will employ robot-controlled electronic devices. Since it is not necessary to man every station of the system, its cost should be far less than that of the more elaborate radar chain...
Television, too, plays an important part in the future world, but with certain improvements. It is interplanetary, in full color, and does not employ any cameras. Called tridco, it is one of the chief entertainments on the future earth. "They might be on this dull old planet for years. . . . It was much pleasanter to doze in the rays of Jupiter and dream of home. Leatrice missed the tridi, the plays, the bright talk and the glitter, the dances and the weekends in New York...