Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seeds of the present crisis go back to the early 1900s, when a young reform-minded President named José Battle y Ordóñez started the country on a spree of welfare-statism. He and his successors set up workmen's compensation, minimum-wage and old-age-pension plans, organized a sprawl of government industries (insurance, electricity, petroleum refining) to cut consumer costs and-in an effort to guarantee democracy-replaced Uruguay's one-man presidency with a nine-man National Council. As benefits piled on benefits, the Council became less a government than a gigantic...
Social Justice. Because such proof is highly elusive - only the manufacturer knows all the technical facts - more and more U.S. courts are now freeing plaintiffs from proving fault. To its supporters, this doctrine of strict liability is simple social justice resembling the principle of workmen's compensation...
...where a 500-room Sheraton hotel will soon rise. Half a world away, turbaned Moslems naked to the waist poured concrete foundations for Intercontinental Hotels in Lahore and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In St. Paul, the framework for a 24-story Hilton climbed skyward, while in New Haven, Conn., and Montreal, workmen were busy building locally financed hotels. These far-flung structures are the creations of one architect: balding, cherubic William Benjamin Tabler, 50, who has become the world's busiest designer of big hotels, including the new Hiltons in Manhattan, San Fran cisco and Washington...
...picked apples for five cents a bushel and all I could eat; I was only five at the time and didn't know any better. I reached the heights though, the summer I worked as a packager in a supermarket, a loyal member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butchers Workmen of North America--A.F. of L.C.I.O...
Exploration of the massive exmental hall was limited to a area where the roof has been of 200-pound concrete which were left dangling thin wires by the blast. Integrators will move into other of the structure as workmen the remaining blocks. That expected to take more than...