Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urban environment of Harvard with that of certain other large universities, we find cause neither for smugness nor despair. The precincts of the university, both in Boston and Cambridge, touch on the neighborhoods of the poor, both black and white. The Personnel Office seeks to recruit employees from a labor force that contains many persons who, owing to inadequate education, lack of skills, or a steady exposure to the barriers of racial discrimination, are chronically unemployed or underemployed. With in walking distance of Harvard are public facilities -- schools, hospitals, and recreation areas--that are dilapidated, undermanned, and poorly equipped. Congestion...
Miss Kearns took a leave of absence in 1967 to serve as a White House fellow to Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor...
American steel companies, beset by rapidly rising costs for labor, have steadily lost ground to lower-priced foreign steel. The trend was accelerated last year, when the threat of a strike prompted consumers to hedge by ordering foreign steel. The splurge was all the more alarming to domestic producers because the Europeans and Japanese made especially strong gains in the flat-rolled products that are used in such key industries as autos and appliances...
...most radicals find the repetition of the litany, "next time, you're really going to get it," a bit boring. Next time perhaps we really will catch holy heck, and maybe the Administration's version of educational vision will send us off to face our draft boards, the labor market, our parents, or a Mrs. Robinson a year and a half before our time. I worry about that every once in a while, but, honestly, I have other things and people to lose sleep over...
...comes at about midnight, when the orange growers and their Mexican foremen finally stop hoping and realize they have to light the pots. The growers, of course, hate to call out the smudge crew; one good night of burning pots can cost many thousands of dollars for oil and labor. But when it comes down to a choice of letting the whole grove turn into sawdust-sacks or calling out the crews, the growers send out The Call...