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Manhattan-based Catalyst counsels educated women in their 30s and older and lobbies with employers to hire more women part-time. In one program. Catalyst officers persuaded the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare to hire 50 women as part-time caseworkers. The department discovered that the women accomplished nearly as much as the full-time caseworkers. Because the part-timers worked only five hours a day, they could keep up a level of effort and energy that full-time caseworkers found hard to sustain for eight hours. In addition, the turnover rate among the part-timers was only one-third...
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...Obviously if a federal agency gives money to any organization and puts regulatory measures on universities to act in a positive way, naturally it will be a catalyst to get these programs speeded...
...reasonable, then, to attribute the current uniform distribution of escalatory preference among the populace to a similarly uniform distribution of distrust, with anti-Communism the catalyst and link between...
...Checks and Twin Midgets. The catalyst for turning prospective investors into true believers is the "Golden Opportunity Meeting." Held in local halls around the country, these rousing sessions, led by flashily dressed men waving fat checks, raise tantalizing visions of big money and easy living for the frequently gullible audience. Often Turner himself will appear, accompanied by twin midgets who serve as his goodwill ambassadors. Sometimes balancing himself on two chairs. Turner spellbinds his listeners by recounting how he succeeded despite his harelip, his eighth-grade education and his early poverty...