Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the 1960s, the average annual increase in the nation's productivity has fallen from 3% to about 1%, and the blame lies partly with excessive regulation. In a landmark study, Economist Edward Denison of the liberal-oriented Brookings Institution calculated that environmental, health and safety regulations cut 1.4 points per year from U.S. productivity growth between 1967 and 1975. "There can be no doubt," says a study by the President's Council on Wage and Price Stability, "that much of the productivity collapse in mining and in utilities can be attributed to social legislation that protects...
This year the curves turned downward, while costs, notably postal expenses, were climbing. Advertisers defected to healthier general-interest magazines or promising publications aimed at specialized audiences. At the same time readers slipped off to the unlettered self-absorption that has characterized the 1970s. Indeed, New Times may have been...
The other characters described in Roueche's full-length portraits in this collection of 13 pieces that originally appeared in The New Yorker move with a similar ease through the routines of their lives. A Congregational minister visits the aged and tries, without notable success, to counsel the young...
You awake into an environment that is, at first, strange and disturbing. At 6:35 Brother James Madden strides heavily through the dimly lit corridor, banging on the door of each cell, intoning, "Let us bless the Lord." Having thus been rescued from a host of bad dreams, you arise...
Donald A. Robinson, director of environment and safety at UMass, said yesterday the individual town inspections would be an "inconsistent approach" because the university owns property in 11 cities and towns."