Word: marginalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On the theory that low-wage jobs are better than none at all, Neil Jacoby, a U.C.L.A. economist and former Eisenhower adviser, urges an easing of minimum wage laws to encourage employment of marginal workers. Ultimately, the best way of reconciling price stability with high employment is to increase labor...
Frank O'Rourke, general manager and vice-president of Barnes and Noble, said yesterday that the company's lease was running out on its building and that the building's owners were planning to triple the rent. "This was a marginal profit operation," O'Rourke said, "and there isn't...
The distinctions are to some extent academic. Each side can now substantially destroy the other even without striking the first blow, and marginal changes in either quantity or quality of weapons will not change that fact. Hence a rough balance exists. Both sides are also spending heavily. However, proportional to...
Rather, Congress was cheering itself. The struggles of the world enter Congress muted, dimmed; agreement and consensus are pervasive there, while differences are always marginal. To its members, Congress itself is what is most important, and they struggle to preserve it and its internal balances and traditions with far more...
Another reason that military men would hate to see the draft go is that they think it provides them with manpower of greater quality as well as quantity. As Colonel Hays noted, volunteers, unpressured by the draft, tended to be "marginal" when the Army last tried them. But he was...