Word: hr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gross national product. Based on the usual wage rates of housekeepers, cooks, dieticians, practical nurses and other persons who get paid for doing wifely chores (but not those of gainfully employed sexual partners), economists at Chase Manhattan Bank estimate that the U.S. housewife holds the equivalent of a 99.6-hr, job paying $13,391.56 a year. Her remuneration for all that work in the form of food, clothing, rent and just plain fun varies widely according to domestic arrangements. Other pertinent statistics...
...section of the U.N.'s translation department. Seemingly, the gesture was Peking's latest effort to win the hearts and minds of the U.N.'s Chinese staff members, most of whom are leftovers from the days when Taiwan represented China at the U.N. During the 31-hr. tea party, delegation officers cautioned translators to read mainland publications more diligently and to brush up on their mainland idioms. They also pointedly reminded the translators that they do not have "iron rice bowls"-permanent job security...
Sachs will thus have more than normal interest in the outcome of the experiment by Hafele and Keating, who by week's end returned to Washington from their eastbound flight. During their 58-hr. 5-min. trip, they had been kept busy taking temperature, pressure and magnetic readings inside the plane; any variations that could affect the experiment will have to be calculated into the results. It will take them another flight, scheduled for this week, and perhaps a month of complex analysis of their data before they come to any firm conclusions. But they are hopeful that...
...essential: few Chinese speak English. The guides so far encountered by Statesiders have proved amiable and helpful, and their English is workable. In general, guides stick with a traveler in only one area. Once launched on the flight from Canton to Peking ($39 one way), or the 25½-hr. Canton-Shanghai express, the traveler is on his own until scooped up at his destination by another guide...
Jammed into giant halls, 273,000 French teen-agers sweated through the notorious 13-to 18-hr. tortures of oral and written baccalauréat exams last week. They seemed docile enough. After all, their careers, future incomes and their very status in French society were at stake. But below the surface their mood was likely to be very different. In the past five months, tens of thousands of lycee (secondary school) students have rebelled at hundreds of the 2,258 state-run schools, occupying buildings, staging hunger strikes and fighting police...