Word: employers
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...Great Society legislation was a noble achievement (though the programs went wildly out of control). But the L.B.J. presidency is forever blighted by the tragic failure in Viet Nam. Richard Nixon was our best President of foreign policy since Eisenhower, not just because he had the wit to employ Dr. Kissinger, but his presidency will never recover from Watergate. The returns are not yet in on Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. His economic policies were an unsuccessful muddle; it is not yet clear that Reagan's very different policies will work out better...
...city subway officials and Connecticut transportation officials failed to confer in advance on the token plans. With each side soon blaming the other for the foul-up, New York Mayor Ed Koch launched a new crackdown on fare cheating, Connecticut-style. Some operators of video-game parlors that employ special tokens have discovered another illegal use for the Connecticut tokens: Pac-Man players are getting a quarter's worth of action...
...helped induce Wang Laboratories, a $900 million computer firm, to move its headquarters to Lowell. By 1982, Wang and other new high-tech firms helped bring 6,000 new jobs to Lowell. Today, companies that assemble computer-age products on the wide-plank floors of restored 19th century mills employ 20% of Lowell's labor force...
Giamatti for his part seemed peeved over the original reaction to his plans. "I was supposed to have called for our athletics to be deemphasized a word I never used any more than I would ever employ that vile phrase" student athlete," he said in an interview with Sports Illustrated...
...that. Although the American League liked him well enough, 11 to 3, his re-election for a third seven-year term was scotched. Said Kuhn: "I think as much as anything else there is some discomfort now with a commissioner who has disciplinary powers over the people who employ...