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After spending a year at Harvard Business School, Reynolds began a career in the textile industry as an apprentice wool sorter. He rose through the ranks of the industry to become co-owner of a small hosiery mill in Gloucester, Mass...
...prolonged surge in output would be required to put all its members to full- time, well-paid work. Two indications of the yawning chasm between job supply and demand, in Detroit alone: in October, the Detroit Post Office handed out 20,000 applications for such jobs as clerk, sorter and letter carrier, even though it announced it would have at most a few hundred openings and that some of them would not be filled for three to five years. Last week Detroit was again the scene of a sort of job panic: thousands of unemployed workers began lining...
...where his body was found by police in a mansion owned by Johnny Carson's former wife Joanne. Born in New Orleans and raised a lonely child there and in New York City and New England, he was hired at 17 by The New Yorker as a cartoon sorter; even before the huge success seven years later of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, he was famous in Manhattan literary circles for his lyrical, funny and gothic short stories, nearly all on the theme of loneliness. He went on to adapt his stories for the stage, produce screenplays...
...have been known to get frivolous cases, or splendidly prepared ones that are nevertheless boring almost beyond belief. Also, the system is designed to maximize the judge's anxiety-that he has just made a mistake, or is about to. It is not just that (as the egg sorter complained about his job) it is "decisions, decisions, decisions all day long"; it is that the system is designed to ensure that the questions presented to us are the hardest to resolve...
...fury was directed at David Berkowitz, 24, a U.S. mail sorter, who was captured by police and identified as the lone gunman who had terrified much of New York in a yearlong series of eight nighttime attacks in quiet residential neighborhoods. But as the city's most massive manhunt ended, the killer of six young people (seven others survived their wounds) did not fulfill public expectations of the type of man who would automatically arouse suspicion, fear and hate...