Word: reference
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barbara Castle's job is to convince them-or at least see that they hew the line. She can refer violators to the Prices and Incomes Board, which can revoke and fine them, but plans to use discipline only "in the nature of reserve powers." Instead, she has already announced her own positive "interventionist", policy, inviting unions to negotiate wage increases of any size-as long as they are based on equal gains in productivity. She was quick to applaud just that kind of an agreement recently (even though it will boost some wages 46% over three years) between...
Clearly, American poverty is unique, both in its scope and its symptoms. According to a U.C.L.A. study, "it may refer to a family's or person's ability to purchase goods and services, to the opportunities open to individuals or groups for improving their economic position, [yet] it has subjective dimensions as well, determined by some kind of norms accepted by the society at large. People who fall below the norm do not necessarily consider themselves to be poor, and people who are above the norm may feel poverty stricken...
...will be interesting to note whether future historians refer to this decade as the Sexties or the Sicksties...
...European pattern of the simple takeover." He predicted that even with the V.C.'s relatively small popular following?he placed it at 15% to 25%?such a takeover would be almost inevitable. In many rural areas, the guerrilla is treated with great deference?or fear?and many peasants refer to him respectfully as ong bac ("Mr. Uncle...
...most Clevelanders welcome the new arrangement. The eighth largest U.S. city, Cleveland has long qualified as one of the nation's leading cultural centers, thanks largely to its prestigious museum and symphony orchestra. Both are housed in "University Circle," a 488-acre civic complex that Cleveland citizens proudly refer to as "the modern Athens." Until the formation of Case Western Reserve, however, the city's higher education lagged behind its cultural achievements. "It was an idea whose time had come," says one of the new school's trustees. "It gives Cleveland a university in the big leagues...