Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Docile King. Only in education had King Idris' government done a good job-and that may have backfired. When new schools were built, there were not enough competent Libyan teachers to staff them. The shortage was eased by importing Egyptians, many of whom were aflame with Nasserite notions of Arab unity and socialism. During the brief periods when the curfew was lifted last week, young men in Tripoli swarmed out to cheer the revolution, and schoolgirls built triumphal arches of branches and flowers on scores of streets. Libyan embassies in Damascus, Rome and Athens were seized by young Libyan...
Musically, Dylan's performance was an impeccable job. But his departure left the faithful dissatisfied. Through no fault of Dylan's, he started hours late. The audience, moreover, had expected two or three hours of singing, and found Dylan's 70-minute stand inadequate. Long after there was any hope of recalling him, they moaned and yelled for more...
Drew Pearson once remarked that his job as a newspaperman was "to spur the lazy, watch the weak and expose the corrupt." For 37 years, until his death of a heart attack last week at 71, Pearson took on that task with the zeal of a cub reporter and earned for himself more controversy than any other journalist of his time. In the view of his admirers, he provided extra-constitutional checks and balances against negligence, incompetence and malfeasance by public officials. From detractors, he prompted unprintable epithets and paroxysms of billingsgate. A Tennessee Senator was once moved to fury...
...Georgia, Alabama and Florida, followed by a tour as a war correspondent in China, gave him a view of the world. But it was still a shy and polite young man of 24 who walked uninvited into Pearson's office one morning in 1947 to ask for a job. He got it, Pearson no doubt sensing in Anderson the virtues he most revered in himself: industry, uprightness, zeal...
Economists have no firmer grasp of many potentially critical labor trends. They cannot gauge the severity of the labor shortages that are raising production costs by forcing businessmen to rely on untrained and inefficient workers. The Government collects no figures on job vacancies to match against its thorough reports on the number of workers unemployed. More surprising, no one really knows how rapidly wage costs are rising this year. The Government currently tallies only wage-and-benefit gains in union contracts covering 5,000 or more workers, and these contracts affect only 10% of the U.S. Labor force. Fuller wage...