Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JUNK FOR SALE says the sign in front of the three-bedroom house for which Leigh DuPré pays the Panama Canal Co. $169 a month. A clerk in the company's rate office, DuPre, 40, is going home with his wife and four children after nine years in the Canal Zone. "We don't want to live where there is no U.S. jurisdiction," he explains simply. Janet DuPree (no kin), 33, a kindergarten teacher in the zone and granddaughter of one of the workers who helped dig the big ditch, betrays the festering bitterness of many...
...proved to be less significant than they first appeared. Few of the 1,000 detainees Marcos has promised to release, for example, are charged with political crimes. Civil rights investigators can find only 17 political prisoners on the list; the rest are charged with common crimes. Thus as a sign of political mellowing, the prisoner release has become, as one dissident churchman puts it, "basically meaningless and hypocritical." Moreover, though Marcos has promised that mistreatment of prisoners will be harshly dealt with, the Commission of Jurists charges that torture continues in Manila's "safe houses," where pre-detention center...
...Administration has so far talked softly and carried a small stick. Yet concern about persistently high inflation has been growing in recent months, and there are indications that the White House may now be ready to take at least a slightly more active stand against rising living costs. One sign came last week when the Senate approved the President's appointment of Barry P. Bosworth, 34, a Brookings Institution economist, to succeed Michael Moskow as chief of the Council on Wage and Price Stability. The council, a relic of the free market philosophy of the former Administration...
...Bosworth got his first taste of Government work as a staff member of the CEA in 1968, while he was still working toward a doctorate in economics at the University of Michigan. He joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1969 and stayed until 1971, when he left to sign on at Brookings...
...Dawn of Living. Home and Weekend is also a sign of new ferment throughout the newspaper business. The number of Americans who buy a newspaper every day dropped nearly3% between 1973 and 1975, despite population growth, before leveling off last year at about 61 million. As a result, nervous pubishers have been conducting readership studies to find out how to restyle their papers to keep their customers happy. The readers answer: add more information about homes, entertainment food, leisure and similar daily living concerns that New York and other city magazines have elevated to objects of intense journalistic scrutiny. Says...