Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Automation is irrevocably changing the shape of the American economy and the work-pattern of the American people. With the rapid development of self-regulating machines, unskilled, semi-skilled and white collar workers have in turn been left jobless. Since the mid-fifties unemployment has tended to rise in times of prosperity as well as recession...
...billion defense expenditure is supplying only 3.1 million workers with jobs in the increasingly automated defense industries; and the multiplier effect of arms spending is muffled by the nature of the product, which is not made to be used, and which creates few ancillary needs. Because of the reinvestment pattern in the highlylucrative areas of defense production, more and more money is being spent each year to keep fewer and fewer men working...
...Patterns. Up to a point, there has been a pattern in the stranglings. Most of the victims were sexually molested. Like Bessie Goldberg, a volunteer hospital aide, four of the women had some sort of hospital or medical-office affiliation. Seven of the women, including Mrs. Goldberg, were 55 or over. But after that, the pattern breaks down...
Though many people regularly carry meningococci in their throats without getting sick, no one knows why spinal or brain disease appears, especially in springtime, in an unpredictable pattern. Only one other man in Wilkowski's company got meningitis, but so did three others in companies widely scattered over the huge base. And one of these, James S. Hale, 22, of Osborne, Kans., fell victim to a furiously progressive form of the disease, reminiscent of the old-fashioned epidemics. It was 5:30 p.m. when Hale went to sick bay, and after a spinal tap he was rushed...
...question is whether Americans will read O'Hara for gossip and sex or for his social criticism. Almost certainly they will stick to the familiar American pattern and relax with his books while snuggled in suburban armchairs. For O'Hara's descriptions are so real, his eye and ear so keen, that we can accept the stories at face value and place The Cape Cod Lighter on the coffee table next to The Saturday Evening Post. To recognize the bite and satire on every page would be to challenge the foundations of our entire way of life