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Baby Boom. Until recently there was a torrent of young Japanese flowing into the work force-the product of the "baby boom" of the late 1940s and early 1950s. But because the yearly birth rate has subsequently dropped by 50%, the bulk of today's labor force is aging rapidly. In 1970, working males in the 45 to 64 age group accounted for 26.8% of the total. By 1980 the same group will form 33.9%. Since the lifetime employment system rewards seniority, labor costs must rise as the proportion of older workers grows-a worrisome prospect in a heavily...
Like Immanuel Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision, Temple unleashes a torrent of arcane information. The reader must keep his bearings in a swirl of genuine astronomical mysteries, an thropological dates and the tricky cross currents of comparative mythology. The kernel of his thesis lies with the Dogon, an African tribe living in Mali. After studying their legends in the works of French anthropologists, Temple became convinced that the Dogon had precise knowledge of the star Sirius thousands of years before telescope technology revealed such information to astronomers...
...reach a record 6.55 billion bu. this year. Since corn is a key livestock feed, its abundance should help to hold down the price of meat. An equally important crop will do almost as well: the wheat harvest should come in at a near record 2.04 billion bu. This torrent of grain will not cause a glut that will harm farm prices, however, because the U.S.S.R. and drought-stricken Europe stand ready to buy the U.S. surpluses...
...exports to Britain and the British West Indies. On April 6, it opened ports of trade to all nations except Britain. By May 10, John Adams was writing to James Warren, president of Massachusetts' Provincial Congress, "Every post and every day rolls in upon us, independence like a torrent...
...York's Bowery Lane to watch Sergeant Hickey die on the gallows. The condemned man was "unaffected and obstinate to the last," Artillary Surgeon William Eustis reported later, "except that when the chaplain took him by the hand under the gallows and bade him adieu, a torrent of tears flowed over his face...