Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dozens of politicians, civic groups and religious leaders endorse a concrete alternative offered by the Employment Research Associates. The idea involves a trial $10 billion shift from military to civilian industries. Specifically, the money would go to develop solar and wind energy, gasahol production, the modernization of the nation's railroads, and several other alternative industries that serve a national purpose. Converting the economy from war to peace industries brings an added benefit: more jobs. Military spending employs fewer people than almost any other sector of the economy. One billion dollars spent by the Pentagon creates 75,710 jobs...
...drum of accessory tools every six or seven days. Such tasks, and programming the factory's computers, are all that the plant now requires of employees. There are normally ten to twelve workers in the plant during the day, but just one watchman for the night shift. Employees are pleased about the new machines, convinced they will bring additional growth to Yamazaki (current worldwide sales: $300 million). Although the automated factory meant intracompany transfers for some workers, none were laid off. Through productivity savings, Yamazaki expects to recover the factory's $18 million investment in two years...
Taking issue with Freidan, Ethel Klein, assistant professor of Government, said the shift in the women's movement should not be from the "personal to the familial," but beyond that to greater societal "responsibility for child care...
However, some researchers allege that the shift in Hughes' plans was a tax dodge. In fact, Cahill admitted that the Institute's status as an educational, non-profit organization is not secure. "Right now, we are considered an institute," he said. "But it's a year to year thing, and the IRS could change its mind any time...
...much in common with Marlowe, the incorrodible private eye who knew that "down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." As MacShane observed, "Instead of his adored England, Chandler lived in a place where values seemed to shift with the tides. No wonder he clung to the code of the public school gentleman and applied it to his fictional hero as well...