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Word: labor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...published seven years ago, A House Divided: America's Strategy Gap, which laid out an explicit better-dead-than-Red line. He still boosts the brass, as in his speech last week to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Skirting the invidious "militaryindustrial complex," usage, he said: "The military-industrial-labor team is a tremendous asset to our nation and a fundamental source of our national strength." Meanwhile he is actively engaged in putting the "team" on a slenderizing diet and preventing contractors from abusing the bidding process that has inflated military costs in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE POLITICIAN AT THE PENTAGON | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena was back at his pre-Chappaquiddick chore of directing traffic. The sum mer residents of Martha's Vineyard were savoring the final days before they would pack their station wagons on Labor Day and head for the ferry at Vine yard Haven for their ride back to the mainland. But the Vineyard summer crowd will no sooner be gone than scores of reporters and camera crews will pour into Edgartown for the Sept. 3 inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Poucha Pond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedys: Calling the Witnesses | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

Unfortunately, it takes 40,000 cans to make a ton-quite a labor of love for anyone who hopes to collect $200 from Reynolds. Meantime, Americans are tossing out 500,000 tons of refuse each year, and dumping room is getting scarce. Beyond the Reynolds gesture, what can be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Effluence: Harvest of Trash | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...there are a few signs that consumers are beginning to curb their appetites for buying. During the first ten days of August, new-auto sales, for example, fell to an eight-year low for that period. On the other hand, personal income is rising sharply, and declining labor productivity means that manufacturers pay more in both labor and materials to produce the same items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: CONTROLLING INFLATION: A LONGER TIMETABLE | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...Church in a way important to the Reformation: priests had proved unable to protect themselves or their people from what was widely assumed to be God's vengeance. By lowering the value of land -because there were few workers left to till it-and raising the price of labor, the death toll also helped bring to an end the old system of feudal villenage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fourth Horseman | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

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