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...Federal Appeals Judge William Wilkins Jr. of South Carolina, the commission's chairman. The result, he said, will be "more uniform, fair and truthful sentences." The impact will reach far beyond the several thousand federal defendants who must now be resentenced. The new system means stiffer penalties for white-collar crimes, 87% of which currently end in probation...
...progress has not been spread equally over various groups in the population. Smoking among blacks and blue-collar workers is higher than average. Level of education is the best predictor of tobacco use: the more years of schooling people have, the less likely they are to smoke...
...determined to prove his innocence as ever." Milken's defense against criminal charges could be hampered by the Drexel settlement, in part because the firm has promised to cooperate with the U.S. Attorney's probe of his transactions. But Stanley Arkin, a Manhattan attorney who specializes in white-collar crime, says separating the cases could help Milken. Says Arkin: "Milken will now be able to defend just his actions instead of those of 10,000 others...
...training to remedial education. In an attempt to match the quality of many foreign manufacturers, Detroit's Big Three carmakers joined the United Auto Workers in 1982 to create a comprehensive education and training program. At Ford Motor Co. alone, more than 8,500 of 106,000 blue-collar workers have since enrolled in basic-skills classes at the company's 50 learning centers in plants nationwide. Says Ford chairman Donald E. Petersen: "The prosperity of our business will depend on our ability to operate more and more like a learning enterprise...
...education has allowed some companies to tap the current wave of immigration -- the largest since World War I -- for skilled workers. Blue- collar employees at the Orange County, Calif., division of Unisys, for example, speak everything from Korean to Japanese to Spanish. Their productivity improved significantly, Unisys managers say, when the company began offering ten-week courses in reading, writing and speaking English. Classes, which number 15 students at most, meet in the company cafeteria, whose wraparound picture windows look out on the Santa Ana Mountains. "Before I took the class I couldn't stand up and talk...