Word: hardhats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a hardhat (Clifton James) whose workaday life seems to have been as terminal as his present state. His distraught wife (Joyce Ebert) cannot ac cept her husband's imminent death...
...convinced that they could be achieved with technology that is either already available or almost perfected. In fact, says O'Neill, the first space habitat-he thinks the word colony connotes exploitation-could be functioning by the start of the next century. Its early inhabitants would probably be "hardhat types," O'Neill says, but after the initial construction is finished almost anyone with a spirit of adventure could live at L5. The cost would be somewhat more than that of the $25 billion Project Apollo, which placed men on the moon, but no more than a fifth...
...graduate school, and often onward into the walled-in offices of academia. Coleman is a labor economist (among his books is Labor Problems, 1953), but the idea of actually going out and doing physical labor first occurred to him three years ago when he heard about the clash between hardhat construction workers and antiwar student demonstrators on Wall Street. "That terrified me," Coleman recalls. "I began to see there was tremendous arrogance among higher education professionals. We get a very distorted view of ourselves and become very intolerant of other points of view...
During his first four months in office, Labor Secretary Peter J. Brennan managed to remain all but invisible: he held no formal press conferences, granted precious few interviews and avoided appearing before Congress. Last week the former hardhat from Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen finally surfaced to detail for a House subcommittee the Nixon Administration's minimum-wage bil−and with that single appearance, Brennan provoked a maxi-split with his old colleagues in the union movement. Said AFL-CIO President George Meany: "We are aghast that Brennan has so completely abandoned the trade-union principles...
...however, the National Association of Home Builders fears that starts will fall 20%, to around 1.9 million, the lowest since the recession year of 1970. That would be about twice as sharp a drop as first anticipated, and enough to put a painful crimp in builders' profits and hardhat payrolls...