Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the best efforts of our Circulation Department to prevent them, the indignities mentioned above do sometimes occur. If you happen to be the victim, I can only ask your forgiveness and pass along some information that may help you: If you will look at the address stencil on one of your recent copies of TIME, you will see two sets of three numbers just to the right of your name. The first two numbers of the lower line tell the month, the last one the year in which your subscription expires. For example, "050" means that your TIME subscription...
...contractual services (e.g., law work, special expertizing, etc.) by 10%. Taber estimated his amendment would save $600 million. Not to be outdone, Iowa's big Ben Jensen (R.) offered an amendment that would forbid filling more than 10% of the some 200,000 job vacancies which occur every year in federal agencies...
...retirements," said Harvard's Professor Sumner Slichter, "occur because the worker wishes to quit. The great majority are at the insistence of the employer or because of ... ill health . . . Adequate pensions cannot be provided at moderate cost if the usual pensions age is as low as 65. Employers and trade unions should face that fact without delay . . . Raising the usual retirement age from 65 to 70 . . . would probably increase by at least a million the number of persons between 65 and 70 years of age who are at work. These persons would add nearly one-sixtieth to the national...
Conflicts did occur between the Overseers and the President and Fellows, but during the 18th Century non-teachers entered the Corporation and asserted its right to lead the University. The more-mature Overseers had previously dominated at times the young teachers who had served as Fellows...
...lack of depth is probably the outstanding failing of the book; conversions, pronouncements, and changes of personality occur frequently, with little background. This sort of superficiality is almost inevitable in a straight historical novel which is tied so closely to documentary facts...