Word: program
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...minority of agencies and some private groups are taking the opposite tack and aggressively recruiting older workers for jobs that employers have a hard time filling. In 1987, Kelly Services, a leading temporary-help agency based in Troy, Mich., started one such program, called Encore. About 14% of Kelly temps are now 55 or older, vs. 10% five years ago. "We can't find enough of them," says Carl Camden, executive vice president of operations. "They have the experience and work ethic employers want." (Camden is too tactful to add that those employers might not want quite so much experience...
...difficulties they face, older job seekers are finally benefiting from a sort of affirmative-action program, launched not by the government but by temporary-help and other employment agencies...
...government he is putting together is likely to go the other way, back to the U.S.S.R., at least partway. If he brings communists into the Cabinet in what he calls a "government of accord," he could produce no more than stalemate. But if he acts on the compromise program he approved last week, things will get worse fast. When Chernomyrdin last served as Prime Minister, he took a crucial step: he stopped financing the government's budget deficit by printing rubles, and switched to paying for it with loans from the International Monetary Fund and banks abroad. This halted Russia...
...that neither Yeltsin nor Chernomyrdin nor any of the other figures spinning in and out of the government's revolving door have a firm plan to quell the economic and political chaos. And even if one did, he probably could not muster the political support to make his program stick. There is, at the core of the Yeltsin regime, a vacuum of power and an absence of leadership. Yeltsin seems to be President in name only, a figure so diminished that he was forced onto national TV last Friday to insist, "I'm not going to resign." The merry...
...announced its first annual loss since the end of the Second World War -- about three quarters of a billion dolllars -- and it's cutting 4,000 jobs. Did somebody say "lifetime employment"? Meanwhile, steelmaker Toa, sagging under some $2 billion in debt, is reported to be pursuing a liquidation program. It would be the largest Japanese manufacturer ever to fail...