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...immigrant flood has helped hold wages down in a broad range of low-level occupations, from assembling computer circuit boards to sewing clothes. The pay for California's unionized lemon harvesters, for example, has remained at $6 per hour since the early 1980s because of competition from nonunion crews, which include illegal aliens. Local 531 of hotel workers in Los Angeles was forced to accept a pay cut from $4.20 per hour to $3.60 per hour late last year...
...sought the release of Soviet Dissidents Anatoly Shcharansky and Andrei Sakharov. When Moscow said no, the U.S. went instead for numbers. The deal was finally closed last month when President Reagan was in West Germany for the economic summit. The 19 East Germans and six Poles involved were mainly low-level spies employed by U.S. intelligence agencies...
While his readers are likely to include company presidents and venture capitalists, many of Grove's correspondents are young women in low-level management positions. "These are people who put paper in typewriter because they have a problem. You can almost hear their plaintiveness," he says. The most common gripe, not surprisingly, concerns bosses: "The supervisor is too dictatorial. He hassles you too much. He doesn't give enough credit. He doesn't know how to motivate." Some letters involve problems that women face in handling new executive jobs. Others ask how to deal with a subordinate who wants your...
...dong--worth no more than $55 even at the official exchange rate. Housing is free for civil servants: Nguyen Than Tan, 24, a Foreign Ministry employee, shares a 10-ft. by 12-ft. dormitory room with three other men. Food is subsidized, but rations are meager. Officially, low-level bureaucrats are allowed each day about a pound of rice, an ounce of meat, a few vegetables, a bit of milk, coffee and a couple of cigarettes. In the private street stalls, groceries are abundant but very expensive. There, rice might cost 150 times as much as in the state...
...measures, the South African economy soared. Only the others country--Japan--outpaced South African in real growth in the 1960s. By the end of the decade, white South Africans were among the most affluent people in the world. Meanwhile, American corporations worked to integrate room and move Blacks into low-level management position...