Word: keening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet, Humphrey is a formidable campaigner, a visceral infighter. He can be scathingly sarcastic or savagely critical. His keen sense of humor (which he frequently directs at himself) is justly celebrated around Washington and on the hustings. His memory is prodigious, approaches total recall; when he came home from pharmacy school as a young man, word got around that Hubert had memorized all the drugs, their Latin derivations and dosages, listed in the Pharmacopoeia, the bible of druggists. Humphrey's father quizzed him to see if it was true...
...groping for ways of halting it. And ahead looms the newer, more urgent problem of competition from the rebuilt industries of Western Europe and Japan. The power of Big Labor to keep pushing up labor costs beyond gains in productivity has dulled U.S. industry's once-keen competitive edge in world trade -and the competition will get tougher in the decade ahead...