Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance, the recommendations would make unemployment rates slightly higher than now. Main reason: the commission wants to count as unemployed any discouraged worker who has sought a job within the past six months, vs. four weeks under present policy. That change, says the commission, would raise the jobless rate by two -or three-tenths of a point...
Manhattan's Fifth Avenue is a rugged road for fashion retailers. Those that have failed in the past decade include Best & Co., Arnold Constable and Peck & Peck. Now one of the street's very biggest names will disappear: Bonwit Teller. For most of its 80-year history, Bonwit's specialized in dressing well-heeled women in genteel elegance. But the store moved from mere affluence to a position of real fashion influence in the 1960s, when its sharp-tongued president, Mildred Custin, decided that Bonwit's should take the lead in promoting the designs of such...
...ample, Brenda Last cheats on her hus band Tony. He journeys to South Amer ica and ends as the prisoner of an illiterate jungle madman who makes Tony read Dickens aloud to him for the rest of his life. Waugh's most savage literary revenge for past hurts occurs in Black Mischief when Basil Seal unwittingly dines on his girlfriend during a cannibal feast...
...Committee Against Racism (CAR) voice stronger feelings about the local police, claiming the existence of a "Court-Cop-Klan Alliance." Pointing to past shootings of blacks by P.G. policemen, CAR literature states, "Given the racist history of these P.G. cops, it's not Terrance who should be on trial; these cops should be on trial for racist murders. Indeed, the P.G. cops have such a long racist history of murder and terror against workers in P.G. that, besides the county government, the only organized support they have is from the Ku Klux Klan...
...claims the 75 per cent decrease in police brutality cases over the past three years is evidence that "negative feelings about the police are unfounded." Each complaint is thoroughly investigated, he adds...