Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always a place he's going and he gets there and he comes down gently. That's perfection." In 1953, after a year of study at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music (paid for by friends back home), she landed a $90-a-week job playing piano at a bar in Atlantic City. To her surprise, the manager told her that she was expected to sing too. She did, and clicked immediately. It was then that she changed her name to Nina Simone because her mother disapproved of singing in public. CAMERA 5 "The blues and jazz...
Other Policies. The price of any slowdown, if it comes, would be some job layoffs, with ghetto dwellers among the first to suffer. Though that prospect is filled with obvious political and social perils, the current jobless rate-a 15-year low of 3.3% in December and January-gives the Nixon Administration some room for maneuver. So does the fact that a number of companies are "stockpiling" workers because of the shortage of skills, and may be inclined to hang onto them as long as possible, even if that means some short-term loss of profits. The White House nonetheless...
...theory that low-wage jobs are better than none at all, Neil Jacoby, a U.C.L.A. economist and former Eisenhower adviser, urges an easing of minimum wage laws to encourage employment of marginal workers. Ultimately, the best way of reconciling price stability with high employment is to increase labor productivity by means of expanded job training among the semiskilled and the unskilled. Thus Nixon's proposal for giving private enterprise tax incentives for ghetto job training could combat inflation at the same time that it helps serve other social needs...
...successful drive against inflation would cause some dislocations in the job market. It would also temporarily result in generally lower increases in corporate profits, returns on investment and wages. "If we do manage to restore relative price stability, it won't be painless," says Norman Robertson, economist for Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank. Inflation is so pervasive-and the task of stopping it so wrenching-that the pain is likely to be shared in some degree by almost every American...
Already Roth's miniatures of urban Jewish life were selling to magazines. The collection of short stories, Goodbye, Columbus, won Roth the National Book Award in 1960 at the age of 26 and two years later the prestigious job of writer-in-residence at Princeton. There he discovered to his dismay that his students could not write. In addition, his marriage to an older divorcee collapsed after four years. Philip went to New York after the publication of Letting Go, a troubled novel that interweaves threads from his Chicago adventure, his marriage and his grim life as a graduate...