Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that slump has given way to a recovery that has lately looked surprisingly vigorous, even though it is still dogged by a distressingly high jobless rate and a possible resurgence of inflation. Last week the Labor Department reported that unemployment in October climbed to 8.6% of the work force, from 8.3% in September-the first increase in five months. In addition, October's wholesale prices rose at a horrifying, though probably misleading compound annual rate of 23.9%. But the outlook is still for continued growth in production, which will create jobs...
...franchises flitted from town to town, network TV contracts never materialized, and deficits zoomed to $20 million by the end of the first season. This year, following a reorganization, the "new" W.F.L. did little better. By the time it died last week, few fans cared. Meanwhile, 380 players were jobless. Among them are a handful of celebrated N.F.L. expatriates, including Running Backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick and Wide Receiver Paul Warfield from the Miami Dolphins. When, if ever, they can overcome legal entanglements to rejoin the Dolphins or sign with another N.F.L. team is uncertain. What is certain...
...sees, before anyone teaches him, the letters of two alphabets, Hebrew and English, and the intricate manner in which they relate. He sees his father, first as a vigorous, powerful man, respected by other Polish immigrants as the onetime leader of a guerrilla band in Galicia; then numbed and jobless, battered by the Depression. Finally and most poignantly, he sees the suddenly aged figure as a tired warrior, so embittered by pogroms and concentration camps that he opposes furiously any contact David may have with goyim-even if the non-Jews are biblical scholars. At the novel...
Unfortunately, Quinn is not alone in his anguish; thousands of other jobless Illinoisans also have been kept waiting to get their benefit checks for inexcusably long periods. Just how many cannot be counted, since the IBES has been no more efficient at keeping track of how far behind it is than at handing out the money. But in August only 46.8% of Illinois jobless got their first checks within 28 days of filing a claim-the standard laid down by the U.S. Department of Labor. By contrast, 80% of the jobless in New York and Ohio, and 88% in California...
...Labor Department reported last week that unemployment inched down to 8.3% of the labor force in September, from 8.4% in August, continuing the slow reduction that economists have expected. A darker side to the figures: the number of workers jobless for 27 weeks or longer rose by 155,000 to a post-World War II high of 1.6 million...