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Such a lifestyle is an invitation to RSI. Repetitive strain injury has long been associated with blue-collar jobs that required excessive force, awkward posture and repetitive actions -- like driving the same kind of screw hour after hour in an assembly line or slicing carcasses all day in a meat- processing plant. For the delicate muscles and tendons in the fingers and wrists, rapidly pushing buttons thousands of times an hour can be just as stressful. "When you're working eight hours a day at the same task, you're essentially an athlete," says Dr. Emil Pascarelli, director of ambulatory...
Finally, when it absolutely could not avoid adding workers, GM at Buick City and elsewhere turned to temporary-help agencies, which now supply blue-collar workers as well as stenographers, computer operators and other office hands. Once more the reason is economics: "temps" draw only wages, not health insurance and other expensive fringe benefits, and they can be used and let go as needed, without drawing the supplementary unemployment benefits GM and other companies must pay to laid-off regular workers...
...about the technology. Not only has it enfranchised thousands of would-be writers who otherwise might never have taken up the craft, but it has also thrown together classes of people who hadn't had much direct contact before: students, scientists, senior citizens, computer geeks, grass-roots (and often blue-collar) bulletin-board enthusiasts and most recently the working press...
Brown's new campaign has been crafted by a freshly hired gun, Clint Reilly, the strategist who engineered the victory of Los Angeles Republican Mayor Richard Riordan. Reilly revamped Brown's organization and focused on targeting, among other groups, Republican women and blue-collar Reagan Democrats in recession-hit suburbs. He acknowledges that Brown, like Feinstein, is bound to face a prejudice among many male Democratic voters that "women aren't tough enough." He warns that countering Wilson's attacks effectively will require negative campaigning. Ironically, Brown proposed in February that the candidates all sign a joint "honest and clean...
...their probes last month into charges of suppression of black voters in New Jersey's gubernatorial race, a voting-fraud scandal roared to life in Pennsylvania. Republicans claim that in a special election last fall to fill a vacancy in the state senate, hundreds of voters in the mostly blue-collar second district of Pennsylvania were tricked into casting absentee ballots that cost the Republicans not only the seat but control of the senate as well...