Word: jersey
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...works in an office must use a personal computer. A hotel clerk, for example, has to know not only how to click a mouse but also which hotel operations a computer can speed up and how. What is hot now, says Allan Kolber, chief enterprise architect at New Jersey-based technical-services provider Butler International, is people who know data warehousing and business-process re-engineering. Anyone who can deal with changes in the formatting of data, or "the domain change" as it is referred to in the high-tech world, says Kolber, "can write his or her own ticket...
...problem with social engineering is that it so often falls prey to the law of unintended consequences. Take welfare reform in New Jersey. Five years ago, the state became a conservative favorite thanks to a tough new law ensuring that any woman who became pregnant while on welfare would not be given additional cash assistance for her new child. Advocates of the law, known as the family cap, called it a strike for personal responsibility, one that would force welfare parents to make the same family-planning decisions that working-class families do. Twenty-three other states followed suit...
...authors, Michelle Fine and Lois Weis, document hundreds of interviews of young adults in the age range of the twenties to early thirties. The interviews occur in Jersey City and Buffalo, cities chosen because of the de-industrialization that has displaced large segments of the working class since the 1970s. For these Gen Xers, the problems of the inner city go far deeper than a slim section of jobs in the want ads. Interviewees consistently say that the sense of community, the thread that once held urban cities together, has frayed and, in some cases, split altogether. They talk about...
...playacting can eventually lead to discipline problems at school. Alan Skriloff, assistant superintendent of personnel and curriculum for New Jersey's North Brunswick school system, notes that there has been an increase in mock-sexual behavior in buses carrying students to school. He insists there have been no incidents of sexual assault but, he says, "we've dealt with kids simulating sexual intercourse and simulating masturbation. It's very disturbing to the other children and to the parents, obviously." Though Skriloff says that girls are often the initiators of such conduct, in most school districts the aggressors are usually boys...
...issue gained momentum in April when state troopers on the New Jersey Turnpike shot at and wounded two blacks and a Hispanic in a van pulled over for speeding. The incident sparked protests just as the issue, dubbed by victims as "DWB"--driving while black--had caught Washington's attention...