Word: hr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work a 12-hr. shift on it each day, the 20-storied South Marsh Island 73-one of 6,300 oil platforms and drilling rigs stretched across the coastal gulf-is both a punisher and a provider, a harsh, demanding and dangerous mistress. And yet the island gives as awesomely as it takes. Located 103 miles offshore, its pipelines stretch thousands of yards across the ocean floor. Drawing from seven big reservoirs 7,000 ft. beneath the primordial ooze of the gulf, it can pump 28,000 bbl. of crude oil to the mainland each day through...
...seemed almost heretical to consider that both output and leisure could be increased together with no loss in pay and profits. Yet that is the promise of the beginning trend toward the four-day week. The most widely used four-day plan does not involve the four-day, 32-hr, week that remains a goal of organized labor; instead, in its simplest form, it calls for dividing the normal 40-hr, week into four 10-hr, days, leaving three days of rest. Although the trend is still in its infancy, most of the companies and employees who have tried...
...giant IBM is taking a new look at the work week, including the possibility of putting some or all of its 157,000 U.S. employees on a four-day routine. Two insurance companies, Mutual of New York and Metropolitan Life, have gone further: their computer staffs work three 12-hr. days a week...
...Family Assistance Plan, which would provide a minimum income for all qualified families, died in the last Congress when House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills argued that there was too little time to resolve differences with the Senate. The bill has now been given the priority designation of HR 1 in the new House, and passage seems ensured. Tied to an increase in Social Security benefits, Mills' version is a bit tougher than Nixon's plan on requirements for welfare recipients to seek work and includes tighter limitations on the potential cost of the program...
...ballet, for word came that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would receive him. Muskie and Gromyko talked for nearly three hours over a "wide range" of subjects. The next day came the coup of the trip for a presidential candidate seeking to strengthen his foreign policy credentials: a 3-hr. 45-min. interview on "bilateral interests" with Aleksei Kosygin. It was the longest discussion that the Soviet Premier has held with an American visitor since coming to power. Once again came word that the talks had been "cordial." Muskie would not elaborate beyond that stock description, insisting that he needed "time...