Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having gambled so much, the President was not interested in showcase talks that would impress the world but accomplish little. Consequently, he considered it important not merely that the talks should get started, but also that they should get started in the proper way, without allowing the U.S. to labor under the considerable disadvantage of negotiating in an unfriendly climate...
Notable Strides. The reason for the tension was an attempt by the island's six-year-old, predominantly Negro Progressive Labor Party to turn the elections into a bitter racial contest with the ruling United Bermuda Party. The United Bermuda, though biracial, is controlled by the island's businessmen and white Establishment. Like their distant neighbors in the Bahamas, Bermuda's Negroes constitute a majority (63%) of the island's 50,000 people; yet, unlike the Bahamas, Bermuda under the United Bermudians has made notable strides in integrating the island's life...
Sobering Record. What makes Vienna so resistible? Doubtless, the fact that prospective directors are only too familiar with the job. They realize that inside, they would have to wrestle with stultifying traditionalism, intrigues, archaic business practices that date back to the time of Emperor Franz Josef, entrenched labor unions, and a recalcitrant Vienna Philharmonic. Outside, there is a formidable battery of critics, a musically conservative but demanding public, and an unpredictable Parliament that holds the purse strings...
...cities and the splendid beaches are now only a few hours' drive or flight apart. Archaeological buffs, for instance, land in modern turboprops on the recently completed crushed-limestone runway beside the ruined temples of Chichen Itza. And in Mexico City (called simply Mexico by most Mexicans), workers labor round the clock, topping off new big-city hotels and readying the Olympic facilities...
Some economists dispute the overall importance of cheaper labor in other countries. Still, workers earning as little as 150 an hour have helped South Korea gain a big foothold in transistor manufacture-a business that is also growing in such low-pay spots as Hong Kong and Mexico. Foreign countries have grabbed half of the domestic movie-camera market, and all but two U.S. manufacturers (Kodak and Bell & Howell) have dropped out of the picture. Cummins now sells most of the diesel-engine output of its British plant in the U.S., while all of RCA's tape recorders...