Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overall economy: total defense spending amounts to only 8% of the gross national product, less than the average ratio during the 1950s and little more than half the Korean war peak of 14½%. Yet, unlike the Korea war, which hit when the U.S. still had plenty of production slack and more than 5% unemployment, the Viet Nam war is an added burden on a substantially full-employment, full-production economy that has been expanding for 51 years...
...this move will affect student employment in the porter service. Last week's decision to cut general undergraduate service in half was based on the decreasing number of students seeking employment as porters. Jewett said that he imagined the increase in freshmen bathroom cleaning would take up any employment slack the end of vacuuming might cause...
...workers because they were unfit to hold jobs in the rapidly advancing technology, can now be dismissed, at least in their extreme forms. Every category of unemployment has responded to prosperity and will continue to do so. But now that that battle has been won and the general slack in the economy virtually eliminated, it becomes even more urgent to look more closely at the unemployment which remains even in good times. So let me talk today not about the common economic theme of the benefits of general prosperity, but rather about the longer term issues of overcoming the barriers...
...case of Hoi Pham Tri illustrates the growing, voluntary response of U.S. military doctors and corpsmen to the medical problems of civilians. In the slack times between treating service men's wounds and illnesses, many doctors in the three medical corps have turned to treating the Vietnamese. Their motives are admittedly mixed. One is concern for the helpless, neglected sick; another is the challenge of severe cases. "Imagine!" says Dr. Pitlyk, "I wouldn't have seen a case like Hoi Pham's in five years at any emergency ward in the U.S., where people just...
...Hope, the other to Phyllis Diller, and Wrong Number demonstrates what a pair of fine stand-up comedians have to do to stretch out an idea that might comfortab'y fill four minutes of prime time. The body hustled hither and yon to take up the slack belongs to Elke Sommer, cast as a European sex queen who suffers an attack of artistic integrity midway through her umpteenth Hollywood bubble bath. Sensibly, she leaps out of the suds and heads straight for the north country to find peace...