Word: labor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tutelage. He also took on a good deal of L.B.J.'s coloration. Though never as devious or secretive as Johnson, Humphrey became remarkably like him in his desire to please everybody, his ambivalence, his addiction to hyperbole, his fidelity to the power blocs of the old politics (big labor, Southern Democrats, the surviving bosses and the elderly). He also became vulnerable to the kind of accusation emblazoned on a placard in Chicago last week: "There are two sides to every question; Humphrey endorses both...
Humphrey had little problem choosing a running mate. He had consulted 100 party leaders, businessmen and labor officials, including A.F.L.-C.I.O. Boss George Meany, who simply urged him to choose the best man. By the morning after his nomination, his mind was made up. A week before Chicago, he had met for two hours in his Harbour Square apartment in Southwest Washington with Gene McCarthy. McCarthy agreed that his own chances for the nomination were slight, whereupon Humphrey asked if the second spot would appeal to him. "No," said McCarthy. "Don't offer it." During the same week, Humphrey visited...
Before he -got into broadcasting, Cosell was a Phi Beta Kappa editor of the Law Review at New York Uni versity, then a successful specialist in corporate and labor law. On the side, he helped organize Little League baseball in the New York area. In 1953, ABC asked him to form a panel of Little Leaguers for a radio quiz show on sports. Two years later, he gave up his legal work to try a few test shots of his own on ten weekend sports reports. Today, with 31 scheduled broadcasts each week on radio and TV, he earns...
...Rents are currently climbing in several major U.S. cities. Increases of 8% to 10% have become commonplace this year in Washington, Pittsburgh, Miami, San Francisco and parts of Los Angeles. For the U.S. as a whole, however, rents have risen only 4% since 1966, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. New York, however, is a very special case. There the apartment shortage and the rent squeeze have become so bad that many office workers, professionals and young executives are reluctantly moving out to the suburbs, an exodus that bodes ill for the city's struggle to retain...
...privately owned apartments. The rest remain subject to rent control, to which New York (alone among major U.S. cities) has clung since World War II. Landlords of rent-controlled apartments are every bit as unhappy as tenants of uncontrolled units. Squeezed by rising costs for taxes, labor, maintenance and anti-pollution equipment demanded by the city, increasing numbers of owners are simply abandoning structurally sound, though rundown, controlled buildings. By owners' estimates, some 12,000 buildings containing 350,000 apartments have thus been left to rot in the past few years. Landlords are so upset at the shrinkage...