Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Uneven regional economic development: Appalachia and much of the rural South, still lagging...
...upswing is uneven. Aerospace and computer companies still offer few jobs, but construction, real estate, healthcare, pharmaceutical, leasing and financial firms are actively looking for new managers. Financial and marketing officers are most in demand. Salaries are up too; some companies will pay 10% or 15% more to fill a slot than they would have a year ago. They have more top jobs than middle-management openings to fill, and age is a barrier only to those in the middle ranks. One major Manhattan recruiter notes that a 63-year-old executive who earns $200,000 a year...
...having great success with Seed Tape, a ribbon of poly-oxide plastic containing seeds. Using a tractor mounted with a reel of tape, a farmer can plant a crop uniformly. The seeds are evenly spaced, and the tape dissolves when sprayed with water. This eliminates the costly problem of uneven planting, which often causes crops to mature at an irregular rate and forces farmers to reap several times. Seed tape has not only sold well to large corporate farmers but has also garnered about 6% of the home gardening market. Carbide is now testing tapes that contain fertilizer or herbicides...
...rough Southern trip in which they lost most of the matches but turned in strong individual performances, the golfers got off to a slow start after spring vacation. They picked up momentum in the mid-season matches, only to see their hopes for the Eastern Championships dashed through uneven performances...
Barry, like several of his teammates, turned in an uneven performance. On Saturday, he shot a very disappointing 89, and then came back on Sunday with a 72, the best score of the day, to come in at 161. Similar--and more disastrous--was the performance of Andy Marks, who shot 81 on Saturday, and 90 on Sunday, for a 171 total...