Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost of repairing the mess, and instituted "Operation Sea Sweep." The company sent a huge cleaning contraption into the slick. Powered by tug, the V-shaped strainer-250 ft. across-skims the surface, and deposits oil in a barge. Trouble was, the swells constantly interrupted the devil's labor...
...started out as a droning House of Commons debate on the automatic right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's . House of Lords. But the argument quickly picked up steam when the talk turned to bastardy among the bluebloods. There are 25 dukes, and, said Labor M.P. William Hamilton, more than a few of them trace their lineage back to "those royal romances which always seemed to involve births on the wrong side of the blanket." As Hamilton figures it, the Duke of St. Albans, the Duke of Grafton, the Duke of Richmond and the Duke of Buccleuch...
With the reduction in shift hours and the demands of better care, the ratio of hospital personnel to patients has soared from about 145 employees per 100 patients to 260 per 100 in the past 20 years. With mounting labor costs, up go hospital room rates. Hospital administrators stand aghast at this; yet in all too many ways it is their own fault. Dr. Leona Baumgartner, a former health commissioner of New York City who is now at Harvard, can cite chapter and verse to show how hospitals have consistently lagged behind reality and then reacted in a "Who?...
...contributed to both the stock market overspeculation and Wall Street's glut of back-office paperwork. * Because of rampant inflation, unions increasingly demand unlimited cost-of-living wage increases instead of limited boosts. Complains Paul Carmichael, a Pittsburgh electrical workers' official: "The ink is hardly dry on labor contracts these days before price increases make them obsolete...
...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...