Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...unemployment and inflation to be "unacceptable." Last week House Speaker Tip O'Neill told reporters that Carter plans to present the nation with yet another economic package, perhaps as soon as this week. The new program, according to O'Neill, is likely to focus on the problem of unemployment...
During the past generation, Americans have come to view joblessness as a failure of the economic system rather than of the individual. People now look to Government to solve the problem of idle workers, or at least to ease the financial burden of being...
...keep up by means of Gail's $125 per week unemployment checks and Ed's $800 per month take-home pay as a production supervisor for a weather-stripping and auto-trim manufacturing company. Previously their joint income was about $35,000 per year. The biggest problem: $20,000 in consumer debts, accumulated in happier times while both held well-paying jobs. Says Ed plaintively: "We fell into the credit trap. We certainly won't do that again...
...despite the 8.2 million jobless in the U.S., the economy is already short of some workers, and a major economic problem of the late 1980s will be the paucity of skilled laborers. Aerospace firms in Southern California are looking for engineers, with some salaries starting at $36,000 a year. SCM Corp.'s Smith-Corona typewriter division in New York City needs toolmakers even though it has laid off assembly-line workers...
...leader-why not a nearly martyred oil tycoon? As President, he'd send Bobby to beat some sense into that Ayatullah fella. Spread some Bs around the Kremlin; no way those old Russkies could resist the sight of Pam in a bathing suit. Inflation, recession, civil unrest? No problem at all in a Ewing dictatorship-at least not for Miss Elite's oldest...