Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some help for the inflation-weary: the nation's 4,668 federally chartered banks can now offer interest on what is, in effect, money deposited for checking, and many have begun doing so. For the first time since the Depression, consumers can get some return on funds that the banks have long been able to use for free...
...million annually and slice about 7.5% from earnings. Savings and loan association officials are also worried about this new round of competition for the savings dollar. Many are desperately hoping they will be allowed to offer checking-with-interest accounts of their own or other services that may help curb a loss of depositors to commercial banks...
...cathedral's completion could help to spur the finishing of two grand Episcopal churches in the U.S.-Washington's National Cathedral, begun in 1907, and now stalled for lack of funds, and New York's St. John the Divine. A massive drive is planned to collect funds to complete New York's cathedral, which has been under construction since 1892. But New Yorkers will not get off as cheaply as Liverpudlians have. The estimate just for finishing St. John's: $20 million...
...with the worst scarred knees were hired first because they looked like they worked the hardest." Their pay for an eight-hour day: 30? to 40?. Today their pay may be as much as $40 a day, and it is the employers who queue up to find good, reliable help...
Just as more women are returning to work and need assistance with the chores at" home, good help is harder than ever to find. According to the National Committee on Household Employment, the number of domestics has declined dramatically from some 2.5 million four years ago to 1.5 million today. The reasons: generally low pay, few benefits, transportation difficulties, low status and the easy alternative of going on welfare. "There is still a stigma attached to being a domestic," says Historian David M. Katzman, author of Seven Days a Week (Oxford University Press; $14.95), a new book about household help...