Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second class, Labor, refers to the number of skilled and semi-skilled workers in a city. As the number of jobs available to the labor class rise, as it does in periods of rapid economic growth, arrivals of Underemployed workers into the Labor class also rise...
...what happens? The demand for existing Managers--let alone new ones--declines as New Enterprise becomes Mature Business, thereby restricting the upward mobility of skilled and semi-skilled workers. The fall-off in the introduction of New Enterprise in turn means few new jobs are created in the Labor class itself, which limits the upward mobility of those in the Underemployed class...
...Ithaca, not only is the trainer working but the surgeons have been called in. Two starting halfbacks from the squad that earlier this year upset one of last season's NCAA semi-finalists, will not be suited up for Harvard...
...semi-official report--to which Decornoy says "the State Department attaches great importance"--Benoit bases his recommendations on "a Hanoi withdrawal," an elimination of NLF influence in the South, and "the projected ending of hostilities by 1973." Reasoning along lines that resemble those traveled by Smithies, Benoit writes, "If hostilities end without a peace treaty, it seems likely that large defense budgets will persist through most of this decade." Later he notes, "Even at best, Vietnam is going to be militarily top-heavy for quite some time...
...question plagued the November Action Coalition long past November when they staged a series of semi-violent assaults on MIT's armaments research laboratories. That action was not enough. All you had to do was read the newspapers to know that it was not enough. And so the rhetoric of struggle moved to greater and greater stridency, carried by its own momentum...