Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nattily dressed, a junior accountant named Robert Philip Adler reported to his new job at the ailing Waterman Pen Co. one August day in 1955. He was no sooner in the office than he found him self in hip boots, helping to shovel up the muddy debris of a flood that had immersed the plant. Adler, now 33, has since cleaned up at pen making in an even bigger way. As president of the renamed and revivified Waterman-Bic Pen Corp., he has expanded the Milford, Conn., firm into the nation's leading manufacturer of ballpoint pens, with...
...system is one of the greatest achievements of all times. It is great not only because of its measurable end product; it is great because, on the whole, it is so humane. The American economic system is producing the material basis for the Great Society. The present and foreseeable flood of abundance is not only producing the means for a great civilization; it is forcing us to think in those terms. If anybody doesn't like the idea of civilization building-don't blame it on any literary or ivory-tower types. They didn't cause...
...shrinkage. Though the city is beefing up its effort to attract new industries, it drives old ones away by reason of costs and congestion, smog and stickups, traffic and taxes that rise in a wry ratio with strikes and relief rolls. Over the last decade, companies have followed the flood of families to suburbia's fresher air and greener acres, draining the city of 17,000 industrial jobs a year. And so far this year, the exodus has continued at a startling rate...
...Amid the flood of nonfiction about the Kennedy era and its end, Bourjaily's new novel is the first effort to capture its impact in fiction. His book emerges as a civilized and affecting account of how the generation closest to Kennedy in age and aspirations took his death...
...good jobs are rare in China. The economy has not caught up to the pace of the schools, and thousands of young men and women are turned out yearly with skills that cannot yet be used. Many are sent out to work in the fields. Realizing this, young men flood the recruitment offices, and the PLA can be quite selective...