Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comprehensive article published in June in the Government's Monthly Labor Review. Its author, Diane Nilsen Westcott, a BLS economist, asserts that blacks have actually made smaller gains in the workplace during the past ten years than they did during the 1960s. In 1972, she says, black men filled 2.6% of all management and administrative jobs and only slightly more, 3.2%, in 1980; even that rise, notes Westcott, could be wiped out by statistical error. Moreover, blacks commonly fill positions, like restaurant managers or school administrators, that pay relatively poorly and provide little status. Concludes Westcott: "Blacks were still...
...idea that most Americans get most of their news from television has for some time been regarded as both true and alarming. With noble earnestness, Walter Cronkite used to plead that his half-hour script would not fill three-quarters of a single newspaper page and that distortion was "the inevitable result of trying to get ten pounds of news into the one-pound sack we are given each night." Speaking at a du Pont Awards ceremony at Columbia University in February, NBC's Tom Brokaw said that unfortunately many Americans "have come to rely on us as their...
Deukmejian would be only too happy to name a replacement for Bird, and has already begun his effort to swing the state judiciary. At the same time, Brown will probably take a last swing of his own. A recent law created 18 new appellate judgeships that Brown wants to fill before stepping down. Last week, in what some considered a flagrantly opportune decision, the court cleared away a timing technicality that could have denied Brown the chance. He might also be able to put one more justice on the supreme court. Frank Newman, a liberal he appointed...
...margaritas are smooth and strong at Chi-Chi's in Milwaukee, and the spicy enchiladas pack a punch. Crowds fill the gaily colored restaurant every noon and night. Such enthusiasm for Mexican dining was once largely confined to the Southwest, but now Chi-Chi's and other aggressive chains are sweeping through the heartland like modern conquistadors. With moderate prices and robust fare, they are capturing an ever growing chunk of the American dining-out dollar. Mexican-style eateries gulped down a hearty $3 billion in revenues last year, or nearly 4% of total U.S. restaurant sales. They...
Caro leaves Johnson shortly after he lost a 1941 election to fill a vacant Senate seat (overconfident of victory, he allowed an opponent to falsify more returns than he did) and headed off to war, a 33-year-old Navy officer. Thus, nearly 800 pages after this saga begins, L.B.J. has barely set foot on the Path to Power. Does the world really need another endless tome about Lyndon Johnson...