Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...with months-long stubbornness for a state tax on personal incomes. After things went from bad to worse, he accepted a makeshift nuisance tax on such items as beer, cigarettes and medicines, which will help the state get through 1960. Michigan's voters will have to tackle the problem anew this fall...
...complaints of the textile industry threaten to split the Administration on the problem of the State Department's free trade stand v. the Agriculture Department's farm price supports, which encourage farmers to grow so much cotton that the huge surplus must be dumped on the world market. Last week the Department of Agriculture, which by law must make the U.S. cotton surplus available to world markets at competitive prices, asked the Tariff Commission for an 8? per lb. duty on cotton imports. Such a tariff would make up the gap between the low cost of raw cotton...
...Austin, Texas employment agency has developed a controversial solution to the growing problem of white collar crime (see above). The firm, Employment Advisors, Inc., gives a $15 lie-detector test to job applicants, certifies those who pass as "honest." The agency also tests employees of a business where pilfering is suspected. Since it opened six months ago, Employment Advisors has tested 1,498 employees (two refused and they lost their jobs) of more than 600 firms in Texas. The results, claims Employment Advisors' Partner Thomas J. Devine, 25, a University of Texas law graduate, are a drastic drop...
...tells each person how the lie detector (polygraph) works and that they can leave at any time during the questioning. Then he asks such questions as "Have you ever taken as much as $10 from a store?", "Have you ever stolen from your employer?" or, wary of the absentee problem among females applying for jobs, "Are you pregnant?" Devine and his partner Clayton Evans, 25, also give each other monthly lie detector tests...
...attendant at the Greenbank Club, but his lunchroom tabs there are piling up like unshriven sins. The trouble is that restless Lincoln is a job jumper-he has headed four corporations in the past decade. Is he a phony? Lincoln Lord himself is not sufficiently introspective to consider the problem, and this is his great strength. When things are looking black as a broker's Mercedes, he wangles the presidency of a small cannery, and his wife chides herself for ever having thought him weak. "This was the real man, the man she had fallen in love with...