Word: year-and-a-half
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...press conference held after the announcement of his Noble Prize, Leontief expressed cautious optimism about the possibility of more radical economists gaining posts at Harvard, and said the Economics Department was "slowly beginning to open its doors to economists with different views. In the year-and-a-half since that conference, however, little progress has been made toward hiring more radical economists, and Leontief last night said he is "disenchanted...
...find that Ford has great benefits," he said. "We get medical benefits, sick leave, 11 paid holidays, and paid vacations." The vacation plan goes by seniority. It takes a year-and-a-half to build up two days vacation. Eventually, an auto worker gets four weeks off. It takes a while to get that much, but our man noted that "once you've put in a couple of years, the benefits jump very quickly." He was also on salary, and not a member...
Ogden's earnings plummeted about 55% in 1969, but in the next three years they climbed back up. In 1972 profits rose more than $5,000,000, to $32 million. The company resumed paying dividends in December 1971 after a year-and-a-half suspension. Even so, investors remain chary of conglomerates, and by the end of last week, Ogden's stock was still dawdling at $13 a share, down from a onetime high...
...movie deals with boxing, the violence on which it focuses is not the brutalization of the body but the devastation of the human spirit. It centers on Billy Tully, an overaged boxer whose psychological survival depends on a comeback he cannot rationally hope to accomplish. After a year-and-a-half away from the ring, he succeeds only in beating a washed-up Mexican fighter for a $100 purse. Within a year, he is outshined by his own protege, an eighteen-year-old youngster with no previous experience, who has the strength and the discipline Tully will never regain...
Harvard has obtained two injunctions against building occupations in the past year-and-a-half- one against members of the Organization for Black Unity who took over University Hall in December 1969, and one against the women who occupied 888 Memorial Drive earlier this month...