Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know the labor unions and the socialists (both in and out of Government) would scream, but it should be pointed out to them that the highly paid commission salesman is actually all that keeps the unions employed. If they don't sell it, no one can afford to produce...
...been imprisoned after political show trials. At a poetry reading in London in 1962, he contemptuously called Olga Ivinskaya, Boris Pasternak's great love and the model for Dr. Zhivago's Lara, a "currency smuggler." Mrs. Ivinskaya was then serving an eight-year sentence in a Soviet labor camp on a trumped-up charge of "speculation." In 1966, when hundreds of distinguished Soviet intellectuals were publicly protesting the sentencing of Sinyavsky and Daniel to eight and five years' hard labor for having allegedly written anti-Soviet works, Evtushenko turned up at an arts festival in Dakar, Senegal...
...Agriculture Department's Sheep and Fur Animal Re search Branch at Beltsville, Md. If the effect could be produced only when the sheep's wool was long, he reasoned, the fibers could easily be pulled, instead of sheared from the animal. And the un skilled farm labor needed for the simplified job would earn only about $2.50 per hour, sharply reducing costs to the wool industry. Taking up the project at Terrill's suggestion, Agriculture Biologist Ethel Dolnick and Physiologist Ivan Lindahl began feeding varying amounts of a nitrogen-mustard anti-tumor drug to experimental sheep...
...year. But businessmen make the decisions, and they are reacting to expanding order books and rising wages, which since March 1966 have gone up 12% to an average $2.92 per hour in the past two years. As a result, managers are increasing their investment in more efficient and possibly labor-saving plants and machines...
Auto service is a mess largely because of abuses in the system by which repair shops calculate labor costs. Under the prevailing piecework system, mechanics are paid a set rate for each job rather than an hourly wage. To figure the labor charge, garages rely on "flat-rate" manuals that specify how much time each job should take. Although automakers publish their own flat-rate manuals, many garages prefer to use independent books that list longer work times-and thus higher charges-for each job. Whatever the manual, the cost of labor ordinarily is figured at $7.50 an hour, which...