Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said although wage-price guidelines call for wage hikes of no more than 7 per cent, a Teamsters contract which increases wages by 27 per cent over three years is within the guidelines because "we eased the standard and it represents genuine restraint." The contract is now pending ratification by Teamsters members...
...where the able and strong abandoned a country, leaving the weak and infirm behind. True, Ireland is better off now than during the potato famines, but to attribute this to migration requires ridiculously long-run analysis. Similarly Galbraith plays down the racial hatred migrants have inspired and the dreadful standard of living--hardly better than what they left--that they are often forced to accept. Finally, while Galbraith says countries like Germany and Switzerland have been able to expand their economies without putting their own countrymen out of work, he does not explain how the U.S. with today's unemployment...
...staunchest backers of gasohol are farmers. If gasohol were to become a standard motor fuel, the nation's production of grain-corn, barley, oats and the like -would have to be increased by at least 50%. But, as gasohol advocates point out, the Government now encourages farmers to hold down their grain crops, so expanding production would not be too difficult. Moreover, alcohol can be produced from a variety of infinitely renewable sources. Though U.S. distillers now use mainly corn as their alcohol base, experts assert that just about any substance with a high starch or sugar content could...
...there had been a savory ethnic core to the musical, it might have taken flight, but both the music and the dances are grounded in standard World War II U.S.O. fare. A raging hit since its debut at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Zoot Suit, unlike California wines, has not traveled well...
...profit enterprises which have little directly to do with academic freedom. To argue that the profit purpose, pure and simple, excuses the decision-makers in a non-profit corporation from anticipating the ethical consequences of their decisions, is, it seems to me, to hold universities to a lower standard of ethics than corporate America, in some respects, is now expected to observe...