Word: joblessness
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Millions of tourists flooded into Spain, spending $650 million last year alone on everything from corridas to castanets. An even more important migration went the other way. Nearly a million Spanish workers, jobless in their own country, headed out into labor-hungry Europe; today they send home nearly $200 million a year in savings, a major source of income for the Spanish economy...
...overtime to finance a vacation or a new TV set, but the top ranks of labor increasingly regard the institution as more of a bane than a blessing. Their criticism reflects a growing union feeling that overtime work is stealing a chance to work from the nation's jobless, and their demands to curb it rank with the 35-hour week as a favored solution to high unemployment. In a bow to organized labor, President Johnson joined the attack in his State of the Union message by proposing a study to consider penalties against companies that regularly schedule excessive...
Last month Saud's jobless sons convinced their father that he would lose his throne unless he acted. In keeping with their talents, the princes' plot was simple. A tour of western Saudi Arabia was scheduled for the King, including the key cities of Taif, Mecca and Jidda. When Saud reached Jidda, he was to issue a royal decree dismissing Prince Feisal and his reformist Cabinet. Then the royal family would once more be in charge...
...Heller about the benefits of a tax cut. There are those who argue that a level of 5% unemployed has become a structural feature of the U.S. economy. Not even large Government retraining programs to teach new skills will dent the problem, they insist, because nearly half of the jobless are so inadequately schooled that they lack the basic education necessary to build a retraining program around. The world's wealthiest nation has found no way to cope with the fact that some of its citizens have no useful place in today's highly technical industrial society...
Last April Oswald was out of a job and broke. Mrs. Paine took Marina to stay with her while Oswald went job hunting in New Orleans. Two weeks later he found employment, and Mrs. Paine drove Marina and the baby to New Orleans. But in September Oswald was again jobless. Mrs. Paine, whose kindness seems remarkable, once more drove to New Orleans, took the woman and the baby back to Texas...