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Word: half (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the royal family already received a pay hike. Prince Charles, who last week marked his 21st birthday at a palace party at which the ladies were allowed to wear pants suits, is now entitled to the full $528,000 annual income from the Duchy of Cornwall, half of which he will generously turn back to the national treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Royal Bind | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

ALTHOUGH 51% of Americans are female, women face many of the problems of a minority. Only 1% of the nation's engineers are women, 3% of its lawyers, 7% of its doctors. For the same jobs, women's pay is often less than half that of men, and nearly one-fifth of employed women with a B.A. have jobs in such categories as clerks, factory workers and cooks. Moreover, the status of American women is, in many ways, deteriorating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Majority Minority | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...forthcoming breed of "jumbo jets" -Boeing's 747, Lockheed's L-1011 and McDonnell Douglas' DC-10. The legal maximum for jumbo noise will be considerably lower than the sound made by large jet engines now in operation; in effect, it will cut in half the noise audible to those on the ground. Under the new limits, the jet noise should be no louder than that heard by a man running a power mower with a four-cycle engine, the FAA promised, and only a quarter to a half as loud as a "typical rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noise: Muffling the Jet | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...Nuclear attack submarines, being built at half a dozen yards, were originally priced at $2.7 billion for a group of 39. That has risen to more than $3 billion, partly because suppliers increased their prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE NAVY'S TURN TO SQUIRM | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Call for Guides. The present law has a special twist for Latin Americans and Canadians. For the first time, it set a limit on their immigration (120,000 a year), but it established no job-preference guides. The quota has been oversubscribed, and more than half the applicants are domestics and other unskilled workers. One result: Canadian firms and U.S. companies doing business in Canada can no longer transfer personnel to the U.S. for training or new assignments without a long wait. The Kennedy-Feighan bill would create a preference system favoring those with skills and management ability. This would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Where Have All the Busboys Gone? | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

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