Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official described as "the worst, most critical" air pollution in the U.S. The air is so foul, said a Public Health Service official, that "if it were subject to the pure food and drug laws, it would be illegal to ship it interstate because it's unfit for human consumption." Or for anything else, in fact: a study showed that Cleopatra's Needle, a stone obelisk in Manhattan's Central Park...
...loan limit in most major cities. That is about 6% of the gap between the indus try's current production and the 1,600,000 homes a year that the nation needs to keep up with the basic demand created by new families and increasing demolition of unfit dwellings...
Western-Style Competition. While op erating on the principle that the more unfit a story may be to print the better it will sell, the new Yugoslav papers are indulging in full-scale competition-Western-capitalist style. They sponsor every imaginable promotion gimmick from beauty contests to lotteries. They take unprecedented liberties with the party speeches and production figures that are the standard fare of most Communist journals, and the space they save is larded with crime, sex and show business. Every clay, Vecernje Novosti devotes its center spread to busty beauties, and often adds a disingenuous caption: "What...
...structuralist theories which maintained that general prosperity would do little good for many categories of workers because they were unfit to hold jobs in the rapidly advancing technology, can now be dismissed, at least in their extreme forms. Every category of unemployment has responded to prosperity and will continue to do so. But now that that battle has been won and the general slack in the economy virtually eliminated, it becomes even more urgent to look more closely at the unemployment which remains even in good times. So let me talk today not about the common economic theme...
...will reach 18 this year and there are only 14,000 persons in the Peace Corps. Even with the war in Vietnam, only 46 per cent of the men reaching age 26 have served in the armed forces. There is also the problem of the physically or mentally unfit. The Selective Service currently rejects some 60,000 men a year (between 40 and 50 per cent of the people examined), and, to complicate things, experiments conducted several years ago indicate that many "unfit" men simply don't want to be rehabilitated. (One project in which illiterates were drafted and then...