Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City University of New York that is expected to be built in a Brooklyn renewal area. Secretary of State Dean Rusk may go back to a foundation job (he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation when J.F.K. named him Secretary of State). The future is uncertain for others, like Labor's Willard Wirtz and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
...against more than one machine in his 72 years. He became a Bolshevik a year before the Russian Revolution in 1917 and was a party member in good standing until arrested in Stalin's widespread purges of the mid-1930s. Not long after he was released from a labor camp, after Stalin's death in 1953, his daughter Nina gained posthumous fame in the Soviet Union as Russia's Anne Frank. At the age of 20, she had been executed by the Nazis for her part in a partisan raid, and her diary of the dark days...
Precisely a year ago this week, Britain swallowed its pride and cut the exchange value of its tottering pound from $2.80 to $2.40. The third devaluation in 36 years was aimed at giving the country time to repair its foundering economy. The Labor government maintained that the devalued pound would swiftly turn the U.K.'s persistent trade deficit, a major source of sterling's troubles, into a surplus. With British goods much cheaper in the world marketplace, exports would rise while imports declined because foreign products automatically would cost Britons more. Surveying the early results, Prime Minister Harold...
...likely not so long ago. As recently as 1965, political squabbles got Singapore booted out of the then three-year-old Malaysian Federation, and factories built to serve the federation's 10 million population fell on hard times. Then, rising unemployment among Singapore's 585,000-member labor force raised fears of a Communist takeover...
...have followed family tradition by going into clerking or shopkeeping are being urged to train as technicians and engineers. To preserve responsible wage scales, the government this year passed laws trimming certain fringe benefits and reducing the unions' voice in management. It did so with the cooperation of labor, which realizes that Singapore could never survive with British-style union practices...