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...also developed a worker- retraining plan that would force companies to spend equally for this purpose. Current worker-training schemes are virtually useless, he notes correctly. "Roughly 70% of corporate training expenses serve only 10% of employees," explains Rob Shapiro of the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist think tank that is advising Clinton. "Companies are loath to train lower-rung employees for fear they'll leave for other jobs once their skill levels improve. Compelling all U.S. corporations to spend similarly on training will help...
They met by a fluke of fate, like a tank and a tricycle at an intersection. He was the most dangerous man in sport, the once and (we supposed) future heavyweight champion of the world, whose conquests included 40 professional boxers and countless women. She was (we now suppose) the last innocent child in America, an 18-year-old Sunday School teacher fresh from high school graduation in a tiny Rhode Island town. When Desiree Washington met Mike Tyson at a beauty pageant last July, she saw not the pug and thug of tabloid legend but a young man wearing...
...asked for a criminal investigation into the firm's handling of implants. Among the evidence: a 1980 memo from a Dow Corning salesman complaining that the company's decision to put "a questionable lot of mammaries on the market . . . has to rank right up there with the Pinto gas tank...
Carol said he did not know whether the spill resulted from a fault in the tank or an overflow. Harvard Police reports indicate that the spill was caused by the tank's being overfilled...
...will the economic dislocation that has made life miserable for generations be altered overnight. The Center for Economic and Social Investigations, a private liberal think tank in San Salvador, estimates that one-fifth of the population controls two-thirds of the nation's wealth; the poor face meager prospects for finding jobs or improving their share. The government has earmarked $100 million to retrain ex-combatants, and foreign donors have pledged up to $1 billion in aid. But with unemployment at 50%, widespread illiteracy and a legacy of violence, El Salvador is unlikely to attract the kind of foreign investors...