Word: workaday
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...annual crop of desktop evergreens and water cooler wreaths attest, Christmas permeates every branch of the workaday world. In this holiday season, however, office parties, business gifts, Christmas cards to customers and year end bonuses to employees are not as pervasive as in previous years. Caution about the economy, confusion over Phase 11, and a generally rising level of employee sophistication have combined to produce a crunch that is taking away those Christmas extras...
...only the most visible part of the federal judiciary. Most cases within federal jurisdiction never get to them. Instead, the great bulk of its litigation is disposed of in the 89 district courts and the eleven U.S. Courts of Appeals around the country. The lower courts are the workaday world of the federal judicial system, and the caliber of the people appointed to these benches is a large factor in the quality of U.S. justice. Though some of Richard Nixon's candidates for the Supreme Court have been of dubious distinction, his selections for the district and appeals levels...
French Courtiers. In fact, as Allende should have added, the arms race never stopped. While the U.S. continued to supply workaday items like Ford and General Motors trucks, hard-selling Europeans were buzzing around the continent with irresistible offers of high-priced hardware with low, low credit rates and scruples to match. A confidential Commerce Department study completed this spring snowed that the U.S. had "lost" more than $1 billion in arms sales to Latin America over the past decade-to the detriment of the long-suffering U.S. balance of payments. The Nixon Administration is also worried about losing influence...
...voice is well known to millions: he was once the hearty balladeer who told people on television and radio that "you get a lot to like in a Marlboro." Musically, he has also exhorted consumers to try Falstaff beer, Kellogg's cornflakes and a host of other workaday products. Nowadays, though, Milnes is so busy with opera that he has no more time for commercials, to his mild regret. "I've made more than $20,000 in residuals alone," he says. "My buddies tell me to can the opera career. Some of them make as much...
PART of the mystique and the attraction of the hippie movement has always been its invitation to freedom. It beckons young people out of the tense, structured workaday world to a life where each can do "his own thing." The movement has flowered and spread across the U.S. and to many parts of the world. It has drawn all sorts of people: the rebellious, the lonely, the poets, the disaffected, and worse. Some two years ago, says Dr. Lewis Yablonsky, a close student of the phenomenon, criminals and psychotics began infiltrating the scene. They were readily accepted, as anyone...