Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter made a survey of 60 U.S. firms, to which he submitted a detailed questionnaire delving into pay scales, working conditions and advancement opportunities for blacks and coloreds. He also visited plants and spoke to nonwhite workers in their communities. According to his findings, Ford...
Yet in his way, Piranesi did indeed design a universe. For in his etchings of the ruins of Rome he imagined a grandeur that the city itself never achieved. Horace Walpole marveled at his "sublime dreams" and the way "he piles palaces on bridges, and temples on palaces, and scales...
The onboard computers will compile and analyze the details of the plane's performance and present the crew with up-to-the-minisecond accounts of engine efficiency, fuel consumption, progress of flight and miles to destination. Flight crew members will become monitors of the automated systems, and the new...
On Government-aided construction projects, the Davis-Bacon Act requires that the job go not to the lowest bidder but to the contractor who agrees to pay the "prevailing" wages of the region, often meaning the highest union scales paid in the nearest big city. "So in rural Maine they...
UNFORTUNATELY, that is only part of the story. While Pentagon gamesmen have made their return to the fold only recently, pressure has been building for a number of years for a re-instatement of another Vietnam-era favorite, the Selective Service System. The movement has been subtle, of course: no...