Word: expect
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Labor Department officials expect slight declines in unemployment for the next several months but hold out little hope that the Administration can soon reach its goal of reducing the rate to 4% . In addition to some 200,000 work ers who are considered permanently un employable, there are countless others who require lengthy retraining or have to be moved from depressed areas to where the jobs are. The rate is also swollen by the hundreds of thousands of Americans who seek only a few hours of work each week but until they find it are classified as unemployed...
Books & Beer. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Theodore Sorensen, who each earned $22,500 a year at the White House, expect to make $500,000 apiece on their memoirs of the Kennedy years. Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, who resigned last week, has been offered $250,000 for his J.F.K.-L.B.J. reminiscences-if he cares to write them. Lawyer Myer Feldman, who quit last March as counsel to the President, is making many times his $28,500 White House salary as a partner in a Washington law firm. And, of course, Feldman is writing his memoirs...
...industry, for one, is mobile to the point of being nomadic and therefore hard to organize. When one union was contemplating organizing insurance company employees, the union paper struck a note of comic despair: "Can you imagine the national reaction to a strike of insurance salesmen?" Some labor leaders expect to develop new forms of cooperation with management, such as the industry-wide boards that already function in steel and coal...
...growing use of more reliable methods of birth control, notably "the pills," might be expected to cut down the number of U.S. abortions. But abortions are on the rise. Many doctors agree with the estimate made by Johns Hopkins' Dr. Harold Rosen,* an expert on the subject. His estimate is that frankly illegal abortions, ranging from $50 back-room jobs to $1,500 opera tions performed by skilled surgeons, will rise some 10% this year to a total well over 1,500,000. Also increasing, by at least 10%, is the much smaller but significant number of medically acceptable...
...European Free Trade Association (EFTA) has been thwarted in its crucial attempts to set up negotiations with the Common Market for lower duties on specific goods. When the EFTA council meets next month in Copenhagen, its leaders expect to report sadly that the possibilities of bridge building between the rival trade blocs have evaporated...