Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that should happen, the implications would be nearly disastrous. Productivity is the key both to raising living standards and to controlling inflation. If each worker produces more, then total output will grow rapidly and employers can raise wages without jacking up prices; the rise in output per employee will offset the higher costs. If productivity is flat, almost every dollar of wage gains is translated into price boosts. Over the decades, price rises have closely followed increases in employers' unit labor costs?that is, wage gains minus productivity...
...there is wide agreement on at least some of the major causes, which have very little to do with worker attitudes. In the complex U.S. economy, how much an employee produces depends far less on his zeal than on his education and training, and even more on the efficiency of the machinery that he works with. The most important reasons for productivity...
When Emanuel Brachfield's broken tibia failed to heal after six months in a cast and several operations, even his doctors began to worry. Reason: if fractured bones do not knit, the affected limb may eventually have to be amputated. Brachfield, 70, a retired New York City office worker, had heard from his physician that doctors at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center were experimenting with a treatment that uses electricity to mend broken bones. He tried it. After eight weeks of electrotherapy, Brachfield has shed cast and crutches and is walking normally again...
...well the arrangements worked among those who remarried. And a New York study of 40 divorced men found that joint-custody fathers were happier, closer to their children and had fewer problems with ex-wives than did noncustodial fathers. Says the author of the study, Psychiatric Social Worker Judith Brown Greif: "The issue of how disruptive it must be for children to have two homes rather than one seems to be a concern more of the observing public than of the joint-custody parents themselves...
...Wales visited him, the Prince of Wales sent him venison, and an actress, Mrs. Kendal, was solicitously tender. At the point in the play where she reaches out to take Merrick's hideously gnarled right hand in hers, the emotionally charged impact equals the scene in The Miracle Worker where Helen Keller first comprehends the sign for water. Longing to sleep "like other people," Merrick, who could only achieve rest by lowering his huge head on his knees, lay down one night in 1890, broke his neck and died...