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...example, reduce a required 60-day notice-of-contract-termination clause in the act to thirty. But here again, it is not enough to effect these changes without considering the many associated questions. In this instance, the penalty for violating the sixty-day notice requirement is one-sided: stringent on laber, not so harsh on management. While the length of notification is being considered, penalties should be equalized also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Urgent Revisions | 11/19/1953 | See Source »

...York's very bigness has enabled it to accomplish near-miracles of specialization in courses of study. Its adult education classes (currently attended by 75,000 grownups) offer everything from ceramics to amateur magic. Its four special high schools, open only to elite students who qualify by stringent entrance exams, are educational show places which offer high-level training for aspiring engineers, chemists, biologists, physicians, musicians and artists. Its trade and vocational schools offer a more dazzling variety of study. One whole high school is devoted to instructing would-be garment workers, another turns out printers, another automobile mechanics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys & Girls Together | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Most varieties of tobacco are already under stringent control, and referendums will be conducted on other types this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Growing Surplus | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

What, he asked, could justify the price hikes at a time of "sustained high earnings" and when "stringent reduction of oil imports is being urged" because of a surplus and cutback in U.S. production? Since all the companies increased prices at almost the same time, he also suspected "collusion." called for an investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Collusion or Costs? | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Near Chemnitz, in the highly sensitive Saxony uranium mines area, where not only Soviet troops but the Soviet MVD mount stringent guard, workers rose up and destroyed mining facilities. Apparently thousands joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Revolt in the Land | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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