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...though, are hardly what many older workers would want on a permanent basis. Lawyer McElyea, for example, got a part-time job through Kelly doing legal work for a telemarketer on an hourly basis with no benefits. It was O.K. as a stop-gap, he says, but "a real dead-end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Careers: Unmasking Age Bias | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...heat of summer, amid the steady thump of rap music, the folks on South Parnell Avenue like to sit on their stoops nursing cans of Old Milwaukee and watching the cars go by. There's not a whole lot else to do on Parnell, a dead-end street tucked away in the blighted neighborhood of Englewood on Chicago's South Side--especially when you're out of work and out of patience trying to find it. So residents spend their time sitting outside and getting the lay of the land by scoping out passing cars. They see somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Kid Stuff | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...adult teacher does not notice a student's talents in the second grade and have a love affair with him in the sixth grade. How can we talk rationally about such "reasons" for Letourneau's behavior as her husband's having a dead-end job or her father's dying of cancer or her having "bipolar disorder"? America is suffering from the Death of Common Sense. STEVEN M. WALK Great Neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 25, 1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...model taught in Ec 10 describes how people choose between variously "preferred" goods. You can apply it to anything: the choice a Harvard student makes between eating at Dunkin' Donuts or Au Bon Pain, or the choice a local resident makes between unemployment or a low-wage, dead-end job at either franchise. Ec 10 encourages students to ignore the glaring fact that different members of this society inherit different levels of opportunity and access to privilege, differences which have nothing to do with the "free" market mechanism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Danger of 'Ec 10' | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Even in Cuba, the ideology of communism is virtually dead. The ego-destroying experience of the special period has robbed the country of its material well-being and shattered national confidence. If daily life for most of Cuba's 11 million citizens is less miserable than it was during the darkest days of 1993, it is still a grinding round of poverty, hunger and dead-end jobs. Even the cradle-to-grave health, education and welfare systems, once proudly held up as the "achievements of the revolution," are badly compromised. Prostitution, that humiliating hallmark of the Batista years, is back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash Of Faiths | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

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