Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minimize the number of votes that are delayed because Senators make uncoordinated commitments for appearances outside Washington during the work week, all Senators will be given a long weekend (Wednesday through Sunday) at the end of each month. That will permit them to schedule travel, in exchange for attending to Washington business for a full five days the other three weeks of each month...
Business, too, has a responsibility to relieve some of the stress on the contemporary family, according to Psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner. In a report to last week's White House Conference on Children, he urged business to create flexible work schedules, cut back on travel, on transfers and on social obligations that keep parents away from their children. Bronfenbrenner also feels that large corporations should concern themselves with "where and how their families live," and with more part-time positions, better maternity leave, day-care centers and family recreation plans...
...family in some ways; but these developments, too, can have their positive effects by reducing the number of pregnancies that lead to hasty and ill-considered marriages, and by allowing couples to put off having children until they are older and have had time to enjoy themselves, to travel and to grow up themselves. The reduction in unwanted pregnancies will also lessen the number of children who are rejected even before they are born and the financial hardship brought on by unplanned large families...
...does offer some thoughts about life inside his vast country. "If you try to control your artists too tightly, there will be no clashing of opinions, consequently no criticism, and consequently no truth," he says. In a similar vein, he says of the country's stifling travel restrictions: "Why should we build a good life and then keep our borders bolted with seven locks...
...shun rivalry for artistic integration. Though he is but the latest European to win a top arts job in the U.S., he does not think America should have an inferiority complex about the Old World. "On the contrary," he says, "you have much talent here, and I intend to travel round the country to find as much...