Word: unites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, about 3,400,000 unionized workers won pay raises averaging 7.5% annually, the largest gain since the Labor Department started keeping track 14 years ago. For the year as a whole, wages and benefits rose about 7%, while productivity increased only 3.2%. The result was that so-called unit labor costs jumped 3.8% -and the consumer had to pay for the jump...
...Richard F. Fenno Jr. wrote: "The Cabinet is the show window of the Administration, and a favorable reception for the group will be an asset the President can use to augment his own public image." Nixon obviously agrees with that lesson in history. He unveiled his creation as a unit last week, the first time that has been done since Woodrow Wilson's mass announcement in 1913-and the first time ever as a live television show...
...hour period last week, 31 U.S. fighting men died in Viet Nam. Among them were 16 Marines helping to mop up a trapped enemy unit below Danang and one infantryman in a patrol that was ambushed 40 miles north of Saigon. One of the 31, impossible to single out, became the 30,000th American to be killed in action in Viet Nam since the grisly log was begun on Jan. 1, 1961. Almost half of the total (14,400) died this year, many in the three major offensives launched by the Communists since the Tet holiday...
...scope of time that Kurt Vonnegut deals with in his novels covers the entire length of a given man's life. It is as if Vonnegut sees this, not as the unit of man's work that turns out to be the most meaningful, but rather as the unit of man's hopeless groping for meaning that finally runs out on him. Yes, his characters do come up with sentences that explain their purpose in life, sentences which send us, the readers, into chuckles of heart-warmed complacency when we discover them; but Vonnegut's people never stop hoping...
This intriguing candlestack starts with one unit and builds into your new gleaming sculpture. Typical of a great and varied collection in the newly located Harvard Square landmark...