Word: employed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...religious empire that includes a thriving church, schools and charitable and fund-raising programs. Thanks to his Old-Time Gospel Hour, seen on 324 television stations in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean, he is also one of the top stars of the "electric church." All told, his enterprises employ 950 people and have an annual budget of $56 million...
Already, just about every employ with a pension plan is having to pay soaring retirement costs. At Atlantic Richfield, the eighth largest U.S. oil company, the pension payout jumped from $60 million in 1976 to $80 million last year. The pension burden has become heaviest in the older capital-intensive industries such as steel, rubber and farm equipment, often because tough unions have increasingly asked for fringe benefits instead of simple wage hikes. Among other firms carrying particularly weighty pension loads are Uniroyal, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel and the Budd Co. A great many other firms have not taken care...
Taiwan toy manufacturers favor 12-to 15-year-olds, while makers of pocket calculators in Hong Kong sweatshops employ nimble-fingered girls who are under 14. Many have lost fingers as a result of accidents at work. In many of the carpet mills of Morocco, female "apprentices" under 13 work for no wages on the ground that they are getting free training. Since Moroccan law stipulates that any worker 13 or over must be salaried as an adult, the carpet industry usually fires its children when they become teenagers and replaces them with younger girls...
Even some of the more advanced European countries exploit child labor. Italy's celebrated shoemakers farm out part of the work to cottage industries that employ children at starvation wages, and Greece still tolerates child labor in industry and construction. The I.L.O.'s most depressing finding in the Year of the Child: the use of child labor has increased by 20% in 1979 and is expected to rise even further in the future...
...face as her bottom that is her fortune-so many low angles of it upturned and bouncing about are featured. It's not a bad bottom, but you can't really make a movie of it. You can make a good movie that allows Streisand to employ fully her unquestioned gifts as singer and comedienne. But first, she's got to stop mooning around...