Word: employment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group is a reserved color lithograph by Andrew Stasik where a large mottled rectangular form slanted across the page elegantly balances the white of the paper surrounding it. As for the remaining few abstract pieces, they seem to be imitating avant-garde paintings while suffering from their inability to employ the tactile effects of pigment...
Through it all, Commerce points out, the small businessman not only survives but predominates. Three-fourths of all U.S. business concerns employ fewer than four people. In two-fifths, the concern consists of the boss himself...
...Heel of a Shoe. The woodprints that flourished in 17th-19th century Japan were called Ukiyo-e, meaning "Picture of the Passing World." They were just that: pictures of solemn actors, sprightly geishas, idyllic landscapes. Japan's modern wood-printers turned to semiabstract compositions, employ many techniques known to their forerunners; e.g., they often wet their paper to obtain a certain texture, but also experiment with leaves, string, the heel of a shoe to get special effects with an ingenuity Western printmakers have not displayed...
...sixth time since the end of World War II, the United Steelworkers of America had walked out in a nationwide steel strike. Cold were the furnaces of two dozen steel firms that employ 500,000 workers and make 85% of the nation's steel...
...Laotian chief of staff, watched approvingly as the bad banners were heaped in a pile, doused with gasoline and set afire. General Ouane. who has a Buddhist horror of going to extremes, says, "There is no question of making physical war on the opium growers." Instead, the government will employ the moral suasion of the Comite de Defense des Interets Nationaux, led by ascetic young army officers, government workers and officials of the royal household. The villages are to be purified by the means of mo lam, or blind wandering minstrels who are traditional Laotian entertainers and have added...