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...longer if mandatory retirement ages were raised: studies consistently show that those engaged in elite occupations--executives, professors, engineers--choose to work well into their 70s when given the chance. These are the occupations in which minorities and women are most seriously underrepresented. Passage of the new laws seriously hamper attempts to meet the goals of affirmative action programs...
...family custom that survives. Punch last year marked a grandnephew's birth with this ditty: O Nicholas Ochs put on his socks to cover his chubby feet. He dropped in the hamper a slightly used Pamper and went out for a walk in the street. O Nicholas Ochs walked blocks and blocks till his socks grew dark and dank. When he came to a stop and sat with a plop at the keys of the Times Data Bank...
...call the President planned to issue this week for amendments to the National Labor Relations Act that would make it easier for unions to organize and recruit new members. Labor chiefs have long complained that employers have taken advantage of various quirks in the labor law to hamper union organizing. This is one reason, they claim, why total union membership (now 20.1 million) has shriveled from almost a third of the U.S. work force in 1955, when the AFL-CIO was formed, to less than a quarter today...
Harvard's campaign resembled, on a grand scale, the drive engineered by John Sytek, vice president of Gnomon Copy, against District 65 members who tried to organize Gnomon workers. Both efforts argued that the union's rigid bureaucratic structure would hamper employer-employee relations, and stressed what they called District 65's poor record both in organizing elections and in negotiations. Each implied that the union was seeking to organize in Massachusetts only to generate dues revenue to offset losses from its New York operation; as Edward W. Powers, Harvard's associate general counsel for employee relations, said...
...Iraq, raised their prices by 10%, to an average $12.70 per bbl. (v. $2.30 per bbl. in pre-embargo 1973); they also agreed to hike prices a further 5% on July 1. But the Saudis and their allies, the United Arab Emirates, arguing that higher fuel costs would hamper the recovery of the industrialized world, raised their prices by only 5%. Today their oil, which accounts for one-third of OPEC's output, sells...