Word: employs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raising output by putting Americans back to work can begin. Programs to make the nation more energy-efficient are the best way in the long run to stop inflation, by improving productivity and lessening dependence on foreign oil. This entails efforts to revamp buildings, industry and transit which would employ many more people--and which would signal the end of bondage to outmoded economic ideas. President Carter can use his discipline on those, like the oil companies, who could use it, and give the rest of us a shot at the Puritan work ethic...
...trap. It was the twelfth straight year that production has increased. While there are not enough zeroes in these figures to dazzle anyone on Wall Street, they are remarkable in Albia. All the more so because the Knesses, defying the collective wisdom of American commerce, neither advertise nor employ salesmen to bring the trap to their customers...
...corporate signatories to remove all "visible signs of apartheid in the working place," Sullivan says. These companies have now desegregated their washrooms, dining halls and work areas, a step Sullivan says is revolutionary in itself and responsible for the endorsement of the principles by ten South African companies that employ 50,000 blacks. Pointing to 30 American companies that are intransigent and slow in desegregating their plants in South Africa, Sullivan says he will give them one more year before he launches a campaign to "embarass and chastize" those companies and to praise those that have made the first steps...
...principles are worthless, a cosmetic alteration of apartheid's horrors that corporations uphold only to legitimize their business in South Africa. They believe, furthermore, that Sullivan's faith in the willingness and ability of corporations to bring about progressive change and social justice is unfounded. Noting that U.S. corporations employ less than one-tenth of 1 per cent of the black population in South Africa, Mary Nolan, associate professor of History, says the principles are a "face-saver or fig leaf for the corporations that in no way change the fundamental problems of apartheid, and are being used counter...
...tiny watercolor "Composition," with its chips of buildings, red sun-moons, checkerboards and triangles, Wassily Kandinsky rejects the traditional rules of artistic composition. El Lissitsky's paper collages employ similar elements but are more subdued and aesthetic...