Word: employed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berkeley, for example, generated 50,000 computer calculations. Complains Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California system and now Chairman of the Carnegie Council Policy Studies in Higher Education: "Such details as how many native American Indians the classics department, which now has about five people, should employ by the year 2003 was required by Federal Government planning. The answer was .08. That's silly; people do not come in those kinds of units...
DIED. Ford Christopher Frick, 83, low-keyed baseball commissioner (1951-65) and president of the National League (1934-51); in Bronxville, N.Y. As commissioner, Frick remained on the sidelines, viewing himself primarily as an administrator in the employ of team owners. As National League president, however, he acted quickly and effectively in 1947 after Jackie Robinson broke the color line and some of the St. Louis Cardinals threatened to strike rather than play against him. Firmly telling the Cardinals, "You cannot do this because this is America," Frick quashed the threat...
...should sell all stocks and bonds in U.S. banks which have kept the apartheid regime and its economy afloat through loans to the South African government. It must support, and where necessary sponsor, shareholder resolutions calling upon companies to withdraw from South Africa. Furthermore, Harvard must be prepared to employ divestiture as a subsequent action should companies refuse to respond to shareholder pressure. Finally, the University should issue a clear public statement of its policies regarding U.S. companies still operating in South Africa...
Claude is nearly 17, and the only thing in his head is, to employ a euphemism, girls. Like every teen-age male in creation, he sees the world through a spermy haze, a green fog of concupiscence. He runs after girls in the street, and when he overtakes one, doesn't know where to put his eyes, his hands, his conversation. He is quite normal...
...undersupplied with compelling staff-written stories. Probably the paper's most memorable scoop was a report that David Frost had gone to San Clemente to edit Richard Nixon's memoirs. The David Frost in question turned out to be a copy editor of that name in the employ of the book's publisher...