Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense, however, Eisenhower had already completed the job of healing he had set out to achieve. Thus he might be remembered better by historians if he had stepped down at the end of the first term. Re-elected even more overwhelmingly in 1956 than in 1952 (57% of the popular vote v. Stevenson's 42%), he almost immediately ran into trouble. His Secretary of the Treasury, George Humphrey, disavowed his budget as too big. The economy slipped toward the worst recession since 1932. After a century of neglect, the problems of the nation's blacks burst forth...
...such that at least a third of the past decade's migrants in Chicago and other cities tell pollsters that they want to go home. Clearly, they cannot return until rural conditions improve. As Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin has proposed: "We must help create in rural America adequate job opportunities, adequate educational, library and other cultural facilities, adequate medical and dental services and all the other essentials of a good life...
Though the Nixon Administration has yet to formulate a program for rural America, some corporations have tried to encourage migration back to the country. For example, McDonnell Douglas Corp. has five plants in Tennessee. Initially, job seekers were local residents, but within a month applications were pouring in from former Tennesseans fed up with city life. The Daisy Manufacturing Co. moved lock, stock and gunbarrel from Michigan to Rogers...
While his Biafra series finally established Churchill as a respected professional, his words have seen print ever since he graduated from Eton in 1959 and took a summer job in New York writing headlines for the Wall Street Journal. He earned a modern-history degree from Oxford, then joined an expedition through the Sahara. That trip led to his first bylined story, which appeared in the London Sunday Express...
...job will not be easy. Tax exemptions and exclusions have seldom been repealed. Instead, in the past 50 years, Congress has opened myriad new tax shelters to accommodate taxpayers who feel aggrieved by somebody else's privilege. An unfortunate result is mind-numbing complexity: the present Revenue Code (1,200 pages) runs longer than War and Peace. Albert Einstein called the federal income tax "the hardest thing in the world to understand." Contemplating his own return, he remarked: "This is too difficult for a mathematician, It takes a philosopher...