Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator McCarthy, the decision to retire for the time being-regardless of his marital situation-was a practical one. He has lost standing in Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor party. Among the electorate, law-and-order seems to have become a bigger issue than Viet...
Each weekday morning after breakfast, the Prince spends two hours in briefing sessions with ranking government experts. Economics is the subject on Monday, church matters and foreign policy on Tuesday, labor and industry on Wednesday, cultural affairs on Thursday, and military and scientific topics on Friday. In the afternoon, he drives his black Mercedes 220 sedan into Madrid for working visits to various ministries. In addition, Juan Carlos spends four or five days a month on trips to factories and construction sites throughout Spain...
...over the "working class" to their beliefs, may well take that long - if it is ever achieved. Months ago, before the S.D.S. split into two fac tions over ideological disagreements at its June convention in Chicago, the S.D.S. determined that it would renew and intensify its efforts to infiltrate labor and create a revolutionary worker-student alliance. Similar "work-in" programs had been attempted before on a smaller scale, but this time the campaign was planned in detail. A lengthy Work-in Organizers Manual was circulated among S.D.S. chapters. At the convention, both factions endorsed the alliance concept, although...
...yardstick that is most apparent to Americans-prices-the economic situation is more alarming than ever. The Labor Department reported last week that consumer prices spurted at an annual rate of 7.2% in June, double May's increase. The rise was led by the higher cost of food, particularly meat. But prices should begin to slow down later this year as lagging beef and pork production picks up, and as unsustainably high rises in services and medical costs taper off. Clothing and furniture prices should level out this month. Nevertheless, over the past twelve months, the dollar has shrunk...
...want to give the impression that Cuba is without economic problems. There are serious problems, in labor productivity, in making investments pay, in earning enough foreign exchange, problems of inefficient in public administration. But, the progress that has been made towards equality and the commitment to what seems to me a more humane relation of man to production make Cuba a very exciting case study of the possibilities for a radical transformation of a poor society...