Word: worke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon himself admitted, no system represents a panacea. Undoubtedly, there will be difficulty in defining what constitutes a "suitable" job for potential applicants. Incentive to work may be dampened if unemployed men are forced to travel great distances to work, even if their transportation is paid. Coordination among levels of government is always a complicated process and, logical as the plan may sound to middle-class taxpayers and legislators, it is the response of the poor themselves that will be crucial to its success...
...welfare program. The ideas are largely progressive, but it will be essential for all of us to see what follow-through there is. In the anti-inflation fight, the Administration hasn't come up with the necessary weapons. The Nixon policy of letting the market forces work their own will is tepid, tired, timid and ineffective. It's going to be a tough time this fall and next year in labor contract negotiations. And not a single move has been made which has been particularly helpful to the cities...
...have been seen by outsiders are pale, as if they were never allowed out in the sun. There is not much work or exercise. When Captain Rumble was asked how the prisoners fought boredom, he replied: "We were allowed to sweep the grounds." Then he added hesitantly: "We ate two meals ... we smoked cigarettes ... we were allowed to listen to the Voice of Viet Nam"-English-language broadcasts from Hanoi...
...association depends largely on the writer's principles. For years, Kuznetsov chose the middle course, promising to report any "anti-Soviet activities" that he witnessed but refusing to spy on other writers. Once, after Kuznetsov had listened to a disillusioned scientist complain about being forced to work out mass-kill formulas on a missile project, the writer found himself summoned to a meeting on a park bench. "It was one of the 'comrades' [secret police]," he says. The agent repeated the conversation and demanded to know why Kuznetsov had not reported it. "I tremble when I write...
...George E. Hutchinson, 66, of Yale, specializes in limnology (the study of lakes) and in the puzzle of why closely related animals coexist without devouring one another. He is a quietist. "I tend to concentrate on things where I can be uniquely effective," he says, and his theoretical work in limnology has greatly aided the practical work of water-pollution control. Unlike some alarmist ecologists, Hutchinson thinks that mankind will survive its excesses. "But the cost to the satisfactions of life will be enormous. There is already a reaction to overcrowding in the cities-riots. The fact that people...