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...referendum passes, the state could also employ convicts at or below the minimum wage...
While scores of black journalists are now employed by the country's most prestigious news organizations, both publishers and activists agreed that the gains have come too slowly. Minorities make up 25% of the U.S. population, but they account for only 7% of the nation's newsroom employees, vs. 4% in 1978. In TV news, black employees have not increased their ratios at all in the past 15 years, and in radio their numbers are declining. What is more, 55% of the country's 1,645 dailies still do not employ a single minority member in the newsroom. "Every year...
Actors and drama coaches employ a variety of techniques to help attorneys polish their acts. The point is not to have the barristers chewing the scenery but to help them get their points across. "If a lawyer overplays and comes across as an actor," notes Coughlan, "then credibility is lost." Some instructors have students practice with real material. Lawyers may, for instance, replay cases that have already gone through the courts, using actors and actresses in the parts of judge, jury and witnesses. Some hire actor- jurors to help them try out strategies for upcoming cases...
Contractors that employ cheaper non-union laborwill have more resources to bid for Harvardcontracts, Murphy said...
...Honda and Toyota, are expected to produce 2.2 million cars annually by 1992, up from 618,000 in 1987. That will surely cut into the sales of the U.S. Big Three, which produced 15 million vehicles last year. Detroit fears the new competition because the Japanese plants, which generally employ nonunion labor, have been able to keep operating costs 15% to 20% below those of the Big Three. "We have more vacations, more holidays and more relief time than the Japanese," says Ford Vice Chairman Harold ("Red") Poling. "Those things will be an impediment to achieving the same degree...