Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts to reform the educational system indicate) was not an easy one. Like society as a whole, the Chinese educational structure has been arbitrary in the extreme and rigidly ideological in orientation. China has been so gutted with students that many are being sent back to do agricultural labor because there are not enough skilled jobs to accommodate them. All these circumstances would make Chinese youth particularly responsive to an open season on party bureaucrats--which is precisely what the cultural revolution has been...
...rural parts of the U.S., where building codes, union labor and obstructive bureaucrats are scarce, imaginative architects and builders have lately achieved some triumphs. To replace the reeking hovels inhabited by California migrant farm workers, Berkeley Architects Sanford Hirshen and Sim Van der Ryn designed $1,200 shelters of paper and plastic foam that fold up like accordions. So far, 20 communities of these and similar quarters have been built with a combination of funds provided by localities, the Rosenberg Foundation and the Economic Opportunity Act. Kingsberry Homes, a division of Idaho-based Boise Cascade Corp., sells $4,750 prefab...
...construction costs would save consumers only about 15% in rents because of high operating costs, spiraling land prices, local realty taxes and interest charges. Still, that is a goal worth reaching. The biggest problem is getting well-known new methods used. Despite their cooperative attitude in Chicago, labor unions are widely expected to balk when today's modular programs grow larger. And some black militants already complain that instant houses are mere "crackerboxes...
...Pull from Inflation. The current problem lies primarily in the growing U.S. appetite for foreign products. Total imports have climbed 22% this year, while exports have grown only 9%. About one-sixth, or $1 billion, of the import surge was caused by U.S. labor troubles. Copper imports, for example, doubled to $600 million during the first half of this year as a result of a 37-week miners' strike. The threat of an August steel strike brought a 59% jump in iron and steel imports. Most of the blame for increased imports, however, can be placed on the seemingly insaliable...
...court martial board at Fort Devens in Ayer, Mass., sentenced Kroll to three months of hard labor and forfeiture of $73 per month...