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...community agencies so that they can tailor the training to local needs. Some municipal governments have made it a top priority. Washington Mayor Marion Barry last month guaranteed a summer job to every 14- to 18-year-old who wants one. The District of Columbia, which expects to employ 23,000 youths this season, up about 9% from last year, will have to add another $1 million to its $6 million summer-jobs budget in order to fulfill the mayor's pledge. In Chicago, youngsters lined up by the thousands last week as officials began taking applications...
...federal money for job programs dries up, local officials will be asking corporations to carry more of the burden. Says Jesse Rhone, an office manager for the Texas employment commission: "Until the private sector assumes greater responsibility to employ these youths, the problem is not going to go away." Chicago Mayor Harold Washington will soon appear in local TV and radio ads in which he implores businessmen to "hire the future." In New York City, Metropolitan Life Insurance has taken charge of a proj-ect in which companies will employ 30,000 youths this summer in exchange for federal income...
After the giant laser is dedicated in a ceremony at Livermore this week, scientists will employ its intense beam of light in an attempt to weld the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, releasing bursts of energy at temperatures exceeding those at the center of the sun. Should they succeed in harnessing nuclear fusion, they could point the way toward a limitless supply of cheap, clean power. "Once we crack the problem of fusion," says John Emmett, associate director for lasers at Livermore, "we have an assured source of energy for as long as you want to think about it. It will...
...signatory companies (which employ 80 percent of non whites working for American companies) had fully desegregated their facilities. All signatories have reported paying equal wages for equal work since 1980. As a result, the Black white wage gap has been narrowed considerable in these firms. A 1982 survey of multinational and South African companies revealed that signatory companies have cut the wage differential in unskilled jobs in half...
...land, cut-rate electricity and other goodies. The prize they are all pursuing: the site for the factory that will build the Saturn, a new small car designed by General Motors to be competitive with Japanese imports. The plant, expected to roll out its first models in 1988, will employ 6,000. So far, 24 Governors, along with dozens of city officials and local business groups, have besought GM to award them the plant. Last week, for example, New York's Governor Mario Cuomo made a personal pilgrimage to GM's Technical Center in Warren, Mich., to present company officials...