Word: worke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magazine writers, or the authors of books about current affairs, often find themselves gratefully surprised by how much remains unexplored and untold about major events that the daily press and television once swarmed all over, then abandoned. An English historian, when asked how valuable newspapers are to his own work, didn't express the usual misgivings about their accuracy. Newspapers would be more useful to historians, he said, if they devoted more space to the immediate past and less to the immediate future. More useful to readers...
...drugs really work? Yes, say the pharmaceutical houses, which got strong support earlier this year from a special advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration. After reviewing drug company data, the study group found that benzocaine and PPA apparently were "safe and effective." It was a tentative finding, to be sure, and must still be accepted by the FDA, but manufacturers pressed ahead with intensified ad campaigns...
...reluctant to cut expenditures for such practical aspects of their lives as tuition, rent, utility bills and essential or even vacation travel. In consequence, they start out by trimming what economists call discretionary spending: buying things that are fun, frills or otherwise not absolutely essential to daily life and work...
...Black work" and a thrift ethic help them handle those prices...
...Department of Labor reports that more jobs are opening up in the secretarial field than in any of the other 299 work classifications on which it keeps tabs. Although there are already a record 3.6 million secretaries on public and private payrolls, new positions are being created at a rate of 440,000 a year. But while secretarial schools are filled, almost 20% of the new jobs are going begging...