Word: employs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both receive more than 1,000 letters a week, and both discuss the more complex problems, especially religious, with outside advisers." And both consistently employ the astringent approach. Explains Ann: "When you sit down and cry with people, you don't help them. Some people have to be shook-and Ah shakes...
...Employ U.S. armed forces to help protect any Middle Eastern nation desiring help against overt aggression from "any nation controlled by international Communism," e.g., Russia or any old or new-found satellite...
...pull the strings and add to or lessen my frustrations, strengthen or weaken, sharpen or blunt the weapon before it is handed to me; but it is I who have it. It is mine to shape and polish, inspire or confound, instruct or confuse, ready or sheathe, and employ wisely or foolishly...
...estimated 1.7%. One trouble was strikes, which cost the U.S. 37 million man-days, the most since 1952. But mainly, the U.S. economy was simply outgrowing its labor force. Despite 900,000 new additions in 1956, industry was scraping the bottom of the labor barrel, was often forced to employ marginal-and yet highly paid-workers. In the long run, businessmen are sure they can solve the problems. They know that productivity rises unevenly, that money spent to increase efficiency takes time to show up in the statistics. Thus, they expect the huge spending in 1956 to give productivity...
...higher. Farmers called, hoping for rain. Vacationers, picnickers, soft-drink bottlers and garden-party hostesses called, hoping for clear skies. Every year more weather facts are demanded and supplied: sailing conditions for yachtsmen, rainfall on watersheds. Newspapers and TV feature weather maps. Industries, department stores, oil companies and airlines employ meteorologists. The armed services, more at the mercy of weather than in foot-slogging days, keep thousands of them busy...