Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year, Fomento, Puerto Rico's economic-development agency, helped create 10,000 new jobs. Yet even that was not enough. The labor force grew even faster, pushing unemployment to 11.6%, nearly three times the mainland rate. Development projects, mostly in light industry, have not generated enough jobs for men, and though there has been some improvement, 60% of the Fomento-produced jobs still go to women. The average wage in manufacturing is only $1.26 an hour-half that of the mainland...
...present standards. According to one estimate, only 10% of the population will be working, and the rest will, in effect, have to be paid to be idle. This is not as radical a notion as it sounds. Even today, only 40% of the population works, not counting the labor performed by housewives or students. Already, says Tempo's John Fisher, "we are rationing work. By 1984, man will spend the first third of his life, or 25 years, getting an education, only the second one-third working, and the final third enjoying the fruits of his labor. There just...
...avoiding the knot of students, the Western newsmen, and the two tearful wives who were waiting at the front. Into the vehicles were bundled Authors Daniel Sinyavsky, 40, and Yuli Daniel, 40, who were then whisked off to start serving terms of seven and five years, respectively, in forced-labor colonies. As expected, Sinyavsky and Daniel had been found guilty in a stacked trial of "maliciously slandering" Russia in their stories-some of which, oddly enough, concern writers serving terms in forced-labor camps...
...authors were sentenced to serve their term in a "rigorous-regime collective-labor colony." That probably meant one of the two Mordvinian camps in the upper Volga Basin, where they may see relatives three times a year, receive letters once a month, and be "paroled" only to a less severe camp. Since neither man is especially robust, long hours spent chopping trees and doing other heavy outdoor labor under sub-zero winter conditions could prove fatal. As far as Pravda, Tass and Izvestia were concerned, that would hardly be too harsh for what Tass described as "dirty foam brought...
Libya's new wealth has brought new problems. With a population optimistically estimated at 1,600,000 in a land 21 times the size of Texas, the country has too few people to put its money to work efficiently. Libya has not enough skilled labor to meet the demands of oil companies and the booming construction industry, not enough competent administrators to channel oil revenues into properly planned projects, not enough trained government officials willing to make decisions. Rents and prices have more than doubled in five years. On the outskirts of Tripoli, Benghazi and Tobruk have grown...