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NO COMMENT The rising cost of being poor The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that the average non-farm family of four must earn $500 more this year than last year to stay above the poverty...
...Art on the assembly line Office and clerical workers at the Whitney Museum in New York City have voted 12-to-9 to be represented by the United Auto Workers...
...Standing room only Recent meetings of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have been so crowded that officials now appoint "designated sitters" to save seats for technical advisers...
...Dow Chemical's principles President David Rooke of Dow Chemical Co., resisting the Environmental Protection Agency's ban on the dangerous pesticide 2,4,5-T, says he is "sick and tired of the chemical industry being picked out as the evil of mankind," and adds: "We hung in on napalm when it didn't mean anything to us business-wise...
...We believed in the principle...
...The Department raised the official poverty level — used to determine eligibility for Federal aid programs — to $6,700...
...The three-year package actually amounts to a 27 per cent wage increase, assuming a 6 per cent inflation rate over that time, he said...
...Looping the loopholes Among 312 "problem-solving techniques" offered to subscribers by a business publication called Boardroom Reports is "How smart businessmen are winning tax deductions for money they spend on their hobbies and the cost of getting to work each day...
...Perfectly clear President Carter's chief inflation fighter, Alfred Kahn, quoted in The Wall Street Journal: "He said the Teamsters Union's tentative settlement 'represents genuine restraint.' But he conceded that 'you can say with honesty that there has been bending of the standards' in the settlement...
...They came in within the standards because of our interpretation of the figures,' he said...
...That works out to 8.3 per cent a year, which he admitted is over the 7 per cent standard set by the Government...
...Department of Labor has announced that the average non-farm family of four must earn $500 more this year than last year to stay above the poverty level...
...Do it yourself Chuck Hansen, a computer programmer from Mountain View, California, challenged participants in a Stanford University seminar to come up with their own H-bomb designs — the winner to be determined by the first entry classified by the Department of Energy...
...The Government asked us to make it and we did...
Vol. 43 • June 1979 • No. 6
