Word: employer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Complications arise in Paola's absence he wants to employ: he careens between badly Beard's deceased wife Leonora starts telephoning him from England. She complains that he has forsaken her, that he has been duped by the doctors and that she, very much alive, is now coming to Rome. Beard is forced to cope with his guilt; he wonders if, like many widowers he is secretly happy to exchange an old wife for a young lover. After all, he asks, how much great literature has been created by widowers bemoaning the loss of their wife? (Burgess...
...unemployment run upwards of 25%; an equal number scrounge by on occasional day labor. "The best way to distribute the wealth," López Portillo told campaign supporters, "is to create more sources of work." Doing that will be difficult. The investment-public and private -needed just to employ new job-seekers is estimated at $10 billion a year, a crushing burden for a nation whose total G.N.P. is only $80 billion...
...report (30/11/76) I did not use the expression "male chauvinist pigs" at a recent R-H Women's Center discussion. Many years ago I vowed never to fall back on that term in public or private; I have never done so; and while I have been known to employ the shorter form "pigs" with perhaps too great abandon, the aforementioned quote cannot be ascribed accurately...
...Carter's announced intention to cut $5 billion to $7 billion from the Pentagon budget has caused intense concern among contractors in the West, with its big aerospace and military complexes. West Coast executives are asking: Will Carter kill the B-1 bomber? The B-1 alone would employ 6,000 by next year...
Despite their parties' differences, representatives of third parties agree on one issue: the national polls predicting that only 50 per cent of eligible voters will employ their franchise this year shows that the two major parties do not represent the needs of the American people. Although few of them will go as far as the American Party's Massachusetts chairman, Edward Russell, who claims there is no difference whatsoever between the Republicans and Democrats--he says that Norman Thomas stopped running on the socialist party ticket after 20 years because he realized the major parties were going to make...