Word: labor
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...least 40,000 more are expected there before summer's end. Free-spending G.I.s have pumped vast new purchasing power into the marketplace, but there has been no comparable increase in consumer goods to absorb the new money. At the same time, stepped-up military construction has drained labor and materials from the civilian economy, further widening the gap between supply and demand. Building workers' wages have doubled in the last six weeks, while everyone from bartender to B-girl demands and gets higher prices for his services. In the country's boom-and-bust mood, speculators...
Anthony has served as a consultant to the Defense Department, the Air Force, the Navy, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as well as a number of industrial companies, trade associations, and management consulting firms...
...shall be able to defend Innocence, to punish Guilt, and to promote Truth and Justice among mankind," Adams wrote, but his Nobel future was apparently threatened by subversion from within. "If I look upon a Law Book and labor to exert all my attention," reads a draft letter to an unidentified correspondent, my Eyes tis true are on the Book, but Imagination is at a Tea Table with Orlinda." He imagined "a scene of Pleasure ... which seems to be grappled to my soul with Hooks of Steal, as immoveably as I wish to grapple in my Arms the Nimph...
Twenty-five years later however, he was less tolerant of such ardor and was deeply concerned by a young Braintree lawyer's attachment to his 17-year-old daughter Abigail. "I ask not Fortune nor Favour," Adams wrote his wife from France, "but Prudence, Talents and Labor. She may go with Consent where ever she can find enough of these...
Barring a worldwide recession, labor shortages in these highly industrialized areas seem likely to increase, probably for a decade, despite automation. Western Europe's labor force is growing only half as fast as that of the U.S., and rising industrialization in southern Europe is expected to curb the flow of job seekers across international borders. In fact, before long, the tide may even reverse a bit. Industries around Milan and Turin have begun buying ads in Dutch and German newspapers offering good jobs at home to trained workers. This, of course, irks the Dutch and Germans, who paid...