Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second version was placed in an appropriation act for the Departments of Labor, Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Office of Economic Opportunity, and also in the Defense Department appropriation bill. It denies assistance to students who are convicted of crimes involving "the use of force, trespass or the seizure of property under control of an institution of higher education..." The third version was attached to the Higher Education Amendments of 1968 and applies to the extensions of NDEA and the Higher Education...
...factory output and personal income, which are measured among the so-called "coincident" indicators. Reaction is already evident in retail sales, which also turned down sharply in March. Eventually, the effects will ripple through the economy as rises or declines in the "lagging" indicators, among them bank interest rates, labor costs and prices...
Earnings this year have been assaulted by the 10% tax surcharge-an essentially Keynesian measure designed to retard demand and inflation as well as by the rising costs of labor, money and materials. Even so, profits generally reached new peaks in the first quarter. The Wall Street Journal, in a survey of 519 firms, found a 7.8% increase in aftertax profits-just about the same as in the last quarter...
...supply is tight primarily because unemployment now runs at a low 3.4%. One inflationary consequence is that labor can demand-and get-some fancy rewards. Last week the Labor Department reported that in major contracts negotiated during this year's first quarter, unions got wage-and-fringe increases that averaged 6.3% annually...
...brought Hitler into the government-and swiftly found himself superseded. He then served the Führer, first as Vice Chancellor and later as ambassador to Turkey until war's end, when he was convicted of being a major Nazi offender and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp. His sentence was later reduced to two years...