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Productivity is one of those tricky measurements that make it sound as if men are working harder and harder, when in fact machines may simply have replaced so many people that the work ers left seem more efficient. At any rate, the economy is enjoying a remarkably prolonged rise in...
Make-Work & Unwork. As it happens, the corollary of "job security" is all too often featherbedding, make-work and unwork. In the nation's $80 billion construction industry, some painters will not use spray guns, some carpenters will not use certain power tools, others do not permit ladders to...
we beseech thee to protect with thy sustaining presence those who venture to explore the heavens." At civic ceremonies, invocations are somewhat shorter and simpler than in the past-and may even on occasion live up to the standards of frankness set by the Right Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr...
The surprise of Canada's inconclusive national election in June was the emergence of a fiery back-country French Canadian politician named Real Caouette, 44, whose right-wing Social Credit Party unexpectedly won 26 House of Commons seats from Quebec. Since then he has been filling the air with...
In bygone days in Merry England, no one thought twice about seeing ghosts; they were as common a household item as chairs and tables. Today an estimated one out of every five English men and women still sees ghosts or experiences "psychic phenomena," but in keeping with the times scrutinizes...