Word: joblessness
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...took part." Others acknowledge that there are indeed tensions between black men and women that are exacerbated by a numbers game-there are 1 million more black women than men. But they insist that the real trouble is rooted in lingering hostilities between blacks and whites: the high jobless rate among black men, the curtailment of affirmative-action programs and other manifestations of what many blacks consider a white backlash, all of which affect the black male's sense of self and thus his relationships with women...
...city hires Ellen Trask, a woman whose credentials are even more formidable than Tabor's, and with the ceremony of gunfighters, the two legal amazons go at it. Tabor wins, but neither she nor the towers are safe from predators. In the end she is pregnant and jobless, but Kluger makes sure that she is not quipless. Pondering an abortion, the expectant mother muses, "The Law is my shepherd, I shall not flaunt...
...gained his reputation as crime-fighter while serving as associate special prosecutor in the Watergate investigations. After assisting Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox with the hiring of investigators, Vorenberg worked full-time on the Watergate case until the fall of 1973, when the so-called "Saturday Night Massacre" left Cox jobless. Vorenberg resigned following the Cox firing, but returned to the case on a part-time basis under Leon Jaworski. Vorenberg remained with the prosecutor's office until former President Nixon's resignation in August...
...food production is way down; last year the grain crop was a record 4.3 million tons below what was needed to feed Viet Nam's 51 million people. Unemployment is so serious that even the Hanoi daily Nhan Dan publicly laments that "hundreds of thousands of people remain jobless...
Other recommendations would change the way jobless rates are used to guide policy. The Government last year paid out $10 billion in aid to areas that reported joblessness above the national average. But in order to figure out what their unemployment rates are, Congress forces states and cities to go through a cumbersome 70-step process; many find it impossible and submit figures that are really only guesses. The commission would instead base federal aid largely on state and local figures reported every five years by the census. The numbers would always be out of date, but at least they...