Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue-collar pay goes to workers who have most effectively improved their competitive position by organization - and recently blue collars have won ascendancy over poorly organized white collars in average salary. In all systems, the factor of supply and demand is at work as an influence if not an iron law - even in show biz. The great majority of performers earn meager sums, primarily because of the excessive supply of aspirants. For them, as Economics Professor Clair Vickery of the University of California's Institute of Industrial Relations in Berkeley puts it, a performing job is like "buying...
Surely the gray-and-white-faced miner depicted on the barn mural in "Rural Murals in Dairyland" [May 16] is not an iron miner but a lead miner, -a representative of the men who settled our area of southwestern Wisconsin in the early 1800s. They holed up in their mines in the winters to become known as Badgers and provided much of the lead used by the North in the Civil War. It is truly fitting that his portrait is the center figure of the mural, for he was in the center of the development of the state...
...running shoes in stock. (Adidas sells a white and orange model that glows in the dark, for night jogging.) Day hikers need permits to enter certain overused areas of New Hampshire's White Mountains. A slender, bemused fellow named George Butler, who produced the body-building film Pumping Iron, goes about saying, "The next generation of American men will be unrecognizable," and at the rate at which weight-lifting rigs are selling, it may not take that long...
...seven, now pronounce that the U.S. is middleaged, and counting. Middle age is a sitcom joke no one wants to be the butt of, and the generation now turning 40 is the one that never trusted anyone over 30. Its members, who are among the most fanatical cyclists, joggers, iron-pumpers, lap-swimmers, rope-jumpers and cross-country skiers, were especially hard hit by the society's youth imperative. A few years ago, they turned that imperative against the society-youth was righteousness-and now it seems to be turned against whatever is not youthful in their own bodies...
...progress in Geneva had been heralded by early signals that the Soviets and the U.S. were eager to thaw the frosty legacy of the Moscow meeting. The week before Vance arrived in the Swiss city, chief U.S. SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke and his Soviet counterpart, Vladimir ("Iron Pants") Semyonov, moved closer to an agreement on a number of the so-called secondary issues (TIME, May 23). Then Vance and Gromyko deliberately launched their own talks on an upbeat note by signing an extension of a treaty to cooperate in space science and medicine and to exchange data on missions...