Word: verne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal discouragement. The effects on three typical families: THE MACHINIST. In Seattle, where widespread unemployment creates a here-today, gone-tomorrow mood, the current definition of an optimist is a Boeing worker who brings his lunch to the job. One man who can appreciate that grim joke is Vern Higgins, 44, a precision machinist at Boeing until last month, when he was laid off after eight years on the job. Higgins grossed $168 a week; now he collects exactly $168 once a month in state unemployment compensations. From that, Higgins pays $108 on the small suburban house in which...