Word: getting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only time she panics is when she's left with nothing to do," says Lerner, who figures she must get her energy from "simplifying her life. She has 20 pairs of beige slacks, white shirts and black sweaters. When she gets up in the morning, she knows what she's going to wear. She never considers what she's going to have for dinner because her cook knows she eats very simply. All the decisions that exhaust the normal person, she has eliminated...
...Federal Trade Commission, long a Nader target, will get new powers to seek injunctions against businessmen whom it accuses of unfair practices...
...governorship of California"? But enough of heady political analysis. What really shook me up was your apparent stress on corporal punishment. ("Her eyes sparkled. 'We are in a birchwood. Perhaps you wish to birch me. Yes?'") I may be square, but frankly I don't get a charge out of whacking somebody on the bare backside. Incidentally, Playboy's September circulation was 5,624,000. How big is yours? -Not So Interested...
Olympian Unconcern. Union economists argue that the worker has been hardest hit by inflation and is the one who will get squeezed the most in a tighter economy. A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany said last week that labor would not buy Nixon's call for wage moderation. He promised labor will continue to press for more and more, as prices continue to rise. In major contracts negotiated through September, the median increase in wages and fringes has jumped to 8.1% as against 6.6% for last year; in the construction trades, it is 12.5%. These are the kinds of increases...
...union leaders. He has quietly helped to cool several other labor disputes, particularly in the airlines. But he firmly opposes direct and heavily publicized intervention. "We want the free collective bargaining process, to work," says Shultz. "We will not be trying to twist people's arms and get them to agree to something they are not quite ready...