Word: layoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 1,000,000 workers are out of jobs in a society that claims to take care of all the workers' needs. The figure is much higher if short-term unemployment is included: an estimated 11 million Soviet workers switch jobs each year, each averaging an unpaid layoff of 30 days. The problem has become so serious that for the first time it is being openly discussed in the Soviet Union. Kitchen Gardeners. Primed by a high postwar birth rate and changes in the Soviet economy, unemployment has become particularly bothersome in Lithuania, Moldavia, Byelorussia, Siberia...
Paris Is Not Arizona. The most serious problem that U.S. companies encounter-fortunately, not too frequently-is the layoff. Though they are accepted as occupational hazards in the U.S., layoffs are almost unheard of in Scandinavia and Southern Europe-and are sure to raise a storm anywhere on the Continent. They violate one of Europe's oldest labor traditions: a job, once obtained, is supposed to last indefinitely. Normally, European-owned factories switch workers to other assignments or put them on half-day shifts, but almost never fire them outright. Machines Bull-General Electric a month ago drew black...
...Harvard track team blasted out of its exam-period layoff Saturday night, winning two races and a relay in the Boston Athletic Association games...
...only Curtis' biggest magazine, but its only serious money loser with an estimated $10 million deficit this year. The board decided to make the Post a biweekly, effective with the first week in January, hoping thereby to cut losses drastically. The decision will also cause the layoff of 250 employees at Curtis' Lock Haven, Pa., papermaking plant. Perhaps as a further economy, the board chose not to replace the two rebel leaders, Editor in Chief Clay Blair Jr. and Marvin D. Kantor, head of the magazine division, whose resignations were demanded last month...
Sophomore Walt Hewlett, returning to action after a week's layoff, appears to be the class of the two-mile field...