Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pledged to the Soviet Union under a barter arrangement. The rest will have to compete in a glutted world market, where prices have tumbled 12? to 2? per Ib. in the last 30 months. To add to his sugar blues, Castro also faced a desperate shortage of skilled labor to help bring in the crop...
...Busy Future. The men who will swell Labor's back benches are markedly different from the hot-eyed Socialists who stormed to Parliament in the 1945 election and opened the first session with a rousing chorus of The Red Flag. The new M.P.s are young (average age: 36), drawn mainly from the professions, and generally are pragmatists like Wilson. In fact, the moderate character of the new Labor M.P.s reduced the fears that a large majority would give the party's left wing strength to force Wilson into abandoning his support of the U.S. position in Viet...
...drafters of the document-Harold Taylor, onetime president of Sarah Lawrence College, and Betty Goetz Lall, of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations-deny any such intent. As the leaders of the Manhattan-based National Research Council on Peace Strategy, which issues statements on foreign policy, they feel that they consulted enough China scholars on the wording of their paper, and that they circulated it sufficiently. No other U.S. newspaper, however, shared the Times's enthusiasm for the document. If they ran anything on it at all, most papers carried a much shorter Associated Press...
...wage costs, have undercut American prices in cotton, wool, and synthetic fabrics. To keep their own wage costs down, U.S. textile firms have built nearly all their new plants in the Southeast and have vigorously opposed union attempts to organize them. Only a couple of weeks ago, the National Labor Relations Board, in an unusually strong order, ruled J. P. Stevens guilty of "flagrant" violation of federal labor laws, accused the firm of wholesale illegal firings, intimidating employees, and threatening reprisals for union activity. The company is appealing the order, which requires it to rehire 71 employees and send letters...
...Hobbled & the Small. Exports are falling while imports rise, and productivity gains by Austrian labor have slowed. Many experts feel that the economy is headed for slow stagnation. Professor Franz Nemschak, head of Vienna's Institute for Economic Research, warned last week that "Austria will surely go downhill unless we weed out the weaknesses in our economy...