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...There is a significant peak in telephone usage during the four or five hours around noon every workday. During many of the 20 other hours of the day, the telephone system is almost idle. But the Bell System and the FCC have had great difficulty in responding to this obvious problem. This is especially tragic for Bell's shareholders because, with a $41 billion investment in plant, any minute when it is not being used to peak capacity is costing them a great deal in lost profits...
Throughout his career, Nasser maintained a ferocious 18-hour workday, taking time out only occasionally for a day in the sun at Alexandria's Agame beach. His relaxations were not enough to relieve a chronic case of nerves: visitors to his office noticed that he constantly wiggled his leg, and during much of his adult life he smoked 100 U.S. and British cigarettes a day. He was a devoted husband and an attentive father to his five children, but lavished few luxuries on his family. He never gave up the suburban villa that he had occupied as an army lieutenant...
...economic system to one more based on merit. In Women's Lib Utopia, there will be free access to good jobs - and decent pay for the bad ones women have been per forming all along, including housework. In creased skilled labor might lead to a four-hour workday, and higher wages would en courage further mechanization of repetitive jobs now kept alive by cheap labor...
...acre country spread at Cross River, N.Y., in upper Westchester County, where he lives with his second wife Janet, their two children and her three children by a previous marriage. (He also has a town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side.) He begins a typical workday by reaching the office, via his chauffeured Cadillac, by 8 a.m. Often he works until midnight. He spends so much time in offices, cars and planes, and so little time outdoors, that he almost never wears an over coat, even in midwinter. In the office he is almost always on the phone, speaking...
Early one workday morning, a middle-aged housewife staggers downstairs, still half asleep, tying a well-worn tartan bathrobe around her. "Hey, honey," her bright-eyed husband calls from the top of the landing, "would you mind starting my eggs?" She nods, smiling slightly. "Hey," he says again, cutely. "I love you." Obviously this marriage is in trouble...