Word: seriousness
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...those law firms accustomed to having their pick of the graduating elite, the shortage of new recruits is a very serious concern, to say nothing of a blow to their pride. A large firm in Manhattan reports that only one-third of the students to whom it offered jobs in the past two years ultimately accepted them (v. about one-half in previous years). Wyman-Kuchel has found that many A students do not even bother to show up for campus interviews any more. Says Wyman: "Sometimes our recruiters come back and say, 'We didn't even...
...rapidly growing segment of the industry since advancing technology gave the world wash-'n'-wear shirts and permanent-press pants. Although synthetics account for 54% of U.S. textile production, imports have swelled from $59.7 million in 1961 to $481 million last year. Cotton-textile imports, once a serious threat to U.S. producers, are regulated by a restraining agreement negotiated with 31 countries in 1961. Today they are of diminishing importance as more and more foreign textile makers switch to synthetics...
...import challenge poses a threat of serious economic and social dislocation in some areas of the U.S. Both industry and Government are worried about the fate of the textile industry's 2,400,000 workers, most of them comparatively unskilled and undereducated. Geographic concentration compounds the industry's troubles. Some 70% of its workers are in the South, chiefly in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Many mills are in one-or two-industry towns, some of which have already begun to feel the pinch. During the past two years, 89 firms in the knitted-outerwear business alone...
Hats in the Ring. Boyle's, most. serious competition for the union presidency is Elijah Wolford, 43, a miner who has switched to night work so he can spend his days campaigning. "The union," says Wolford, "has moved too far away from its original purpose-to protect the workingman...
Scratch a wine expert, find a frustrated poet. Wines are seldom good or bad; they are "serious" or "sprightly," "frivolous" or "untrustworthy." When New York Wine Importer Frank Schoonmaker talks about "sunny, lovable little fellows, never a bit sullen or ill-tempered or withdrawn," he is not boasting about his children or a litter of puppies; he is describing the wines of the Rhine and Moselle river valleys...