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TIME's economists predicted that U.S. unemployment, which dipped to a four- year low of 5.9% in September, will be at that level at the end of next year. Said labor economist Audrey Freedman: "The current and future trends in the American labor market are, first of all, a steady growth in jobs, and I think that's going to continue at least through 1995." But at the same time, she noted, "there really have been no increases in real average wages" during the expansion, "and that's going to continue as well...
...workers complain that for them expansion spells exhaustion. Throughout American industry, companies are using overtime to wring the most out of the U.S. labor force: the factory workweek currently is averaging a near record 42 hours, including 4.6 hours of overtime. Americans, observes Audrey Freedman, a labor economist and member of TIME's board, "are the workingest people in the world." The big-three automakers have pushed this trend to an extreme. Their workers are putting in an average of 10 hours overtime a week and laboring an average of six eight-hour Saturdays a year...
...Audrey Marsh of Media, Pennsylvania, thought they knew a thing or two about computing. They first met on an online bulletin board. Dan runs complex software in his job as a financial controller for a real estate company, while Audrey works as an information-systems manager. But even the Marshes have been startled by the fervor with which Audrey's two sons, Joshua, 10, and Stephen, 3, have been booting up educational software on the family's home computer. Since the day Joshua declared he had to have a popular geography program called Where in the USA Is Carmen Sandiego...
...this musical Shangri-La is the fact that it is set on private property. It was built in 1934 at the will of Sir John Christie, the scion of a rich, ancient family, who saw it as a showcase for the talents of his new wife, lyric soprano Audrey Mildmay. The current proprietor, John's son George, makes his home right next to what could be called the family store...
...Many consumers who still have their jobs see themselves as "survivors" of one of the worst upheavals ever seen in the work force, the TIME economists said. Moreover, "American workers have adapted to the idea that they're not going to have the same job forever," said labor economist Audrey Freedman, who runs a New York City-based management consulting firm. They have learned to accept the inevitable job shifts, Freedman noted, and are determined to get on with their lives as best they can. Work forces in Europe and Japan have shown no such mobility or adaptability...