Selected Readings in Employment and Manpower, Committee Print 88th Congress, 2d Session |
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... important elements in the new outlook , indeed , is that we may expect highly variable rates of growth in the future , partly in consequence of the sharp decline in births in the decade 1925-35 , the small increase in the later 1930's ...
... important elements in the new outlook , indeed , is that we may expect highly variable rates of growth in the future , partly in consequence of the sharp decline in births in the decade 1925-35 , the small increase in the later 1930's ...
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... important than changes in total numbers . Though by no means easy to solve , these will not be baffling problems of a new type but of the same general character as those which Americans have had long experience in solving . They will be ...
... important than changes in total numbers . Though by no means easy to solve , these will not be baffling problems of a new type but of the same general character as those which Americans have had long experience in solving . They will be ...
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... important growth of urgent wants as com- pared with a society in which the median age is rising rapidly and larger proportions of consumer expenditures are readily postponable or dispensable . The population upsurge has contributed to ...
... important growth of urgent wants as com- pared with a society in which the median age is rising rapidly and larger proportions of consumer expenditures are readily postponable or dispensable . The population upsurge has contributed to ...
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... important problem concerns the forms in which we shall take such increased leisure as we can and do choose within the workday , the workweek , or the work year ; before the years of full - time employ- ment begin ; or during the years ...
... important problem concerns the forms in which we shall take such increased leisure as we can and do choose within the workday , the workweek , or the work year ; before the years of full - time employ- ment begin ; or during the years ...
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... important respects , be on the verge of obsolescence . But let us assume that $ 40 billion in capital investment are adequate for the needs of the 1957 economy . We would then need $ 65 billion a year in 1965 and at least $ 100 billion ...
... important respects , be on the verge of obsolescence . But let us assume that $ 40 billion in capital investment are adequate for the needs of the 1957 economy . We would then need $ 65 billion a year in 1965 and at least $ 100 billion ...
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Page 295 - Commission, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Page 747 - ... following objectives: (a) To preserve management and employee skills necessary to the fulfillment of Government contracts and purchases ; (b) To maintain productive facilities ; (c) To improve utilization of the Nation's total manpower potential by making use of the manpower resources of each area; (d) To help assure timely delivery of required goods and services and to promote readiness for expanded effort by locating procurement where the needed manpower and facilities are fully available.
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Page 342 - The quantity of materials which the same number of people can work up, increases in a great proportion as labour comes to be more and more subdivided ; and as the operations of each workman are gradually reduced to a greater degree of simplicity, a variety of new machines come to be invented for facilitating and abridging those operations.
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Page 450 - Nation. 2. This progress can and must be achieved without the sacrifice of human values. 3. Achievement of technological progress without sacrifice of human values requires a combination of private and governmental action, consonant with the principles of a free society.
Page 887 - ... the contract is in a field of science or technology in which there has been little significant experience outside of work funded by the government, or where the government has been the principal developer of the field, and the acquisition of exclusive rights at the tune of contracting might confer on the contractor a preferred or dominant position...
Page 888 - Where the government may acquire the principal rights and does not elect to secure a patent in a foreign country, the contractor may file and retain the principal or exclusive foreign rights subject to retention by the government of at least a royalty free license for governmental purposes and on behalf of any foreign government pursuant to any existing or future treaty or agreement with the United States.