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Some people-nobody has a good estimate of how many-are not actively looking for jobs but list themselves as unemployed in order to collect the benefits that are available. In scattered cases, the benefits amount to more than people can earn after deducting taxes and expenses and thus deter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The New Math Of Unemployment | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

Base-hit bleeders, bad hops in the infield, and rare errors by Joe Morgan and Dave Conception paved a yellow brick basepath early for the Yankees. However, the best the Bronx Bombers could manage were two scattered runs in the first and fifth innings on clutch hits by Chris Chambliss...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Seeing Red(S) | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

The next morning I caught a dolmus, or communal taxicab (the word literally means 'stuffed') as far as Nevshehir, the bustling center of Cappadocia, and decided to hitch to some of the clusters of rock dwellings--Zelve, Cavus In, Goreme, Ortahisar and others--scattered around the valley.

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: Valley of the Fairy Kingdom | 10/19/1976 | See Source »

Tropical Madness. The tradition of Romantic landscape, with its vistas of beetling crags, waterfalls and floods of primordial light, rose from the vision of untouched America as a new Eden, the manifest handiwork of God. "Artists," a journalist noted in 1859, "are now scattered, like leaves or thistle blossoms, over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eyeball and Earthly Paradise | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

Mary Hemingway's story, compiled from diaries and unpublished letters as well as memory, is often as jumbled as her life with Hemingway. A good deal of the time the author appeared to be running away from his worktable and the fearful knowledge that, increasingly, he was not the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary's Museship | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

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