Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Court Clerk William Johnston said late this week that the case may come up some time next week, but that he could not yet be sure of the exact date...
...hour for gas station attendants, security guards, dishwashers. Those openings are often grabbed up by people who used to earn twice or three times as much. To get any job at all, some people are downplaying their talents and training, hoping to avoid the stigma of "overqualification." Marge Johnston, 49, of Berkeley, Calif, has been a medical microbiologist for 23 years and unemployed for the past 17 months. Says she: "Nobody is going to hire a microbiologist to drive a bus. But I'm prepared to handle that. On job application forms, I can put down that...
Buses run every half-hour from Johnston Gate during the day and hourly in the evenings until 10:15, but do not run at all on weekends...
...Flint, a big builder of Buicks and Chevrolets, the unemployment rate is more than 14%. Delaware, California and New Jersey have also been clobbered, with the inner cities hit worst of all. "In the spring it took 15 minutes to get your unemployment check and get out," says Charles Johnston, an out-of-work carpenter in Trenton. "Now it takes from an hour to an hour and a half." The South still has a lower unemployment rate than most other regions, but lately its economic barometers have been falling faster than the national average. One reason: the South still "imports...
...retailer of furniture and building supplies, predicts that Congress will not long remain pliant if Ford starts whacking away at the budget in earnest: "He will discover that once he starts tampering with everyone's favorite pork barrel, you can lose some friends fast." Milwaukee Banker Neil Johnston predicts that double-digit inflation will continue for some years, no matter who is President. But Ford has at least a chance to make a fresh start, and will benefit for a while from business and congressional eagerness to forgive any economic mistakes. In economics as well as in politics...