Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle-of-the-roaders, particularly ones with Kissinger connections, such as Baker's chosen deputy, Lawrence Eagleburger. Another target of opposition has been Lord, whom Eagleburger wanted to be Assistant Secretary for East Asia. And as a sop to the right, a former Helms protege, ( Richard McCormack, got the job of Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, instead of almost everyone's first choice, Robert Hormats, a highly regarded international trade specialist...
...project to rebuild the country's cranky telephone system virtually from scratch. As one of the main contractors on the project, Italtel will supply most of the basic equipment, while AT&T will provide the know-how, software and supercomputers that will make Italian phone lines hum efficiently. The job may be worth several billion dollars to Ma Bell...
...homelessness can not be attributed to mere laziness. Several reasons suggest why no one accepted a recent offer, made by one Harvard Square restaurant owner to residents of a homeless shelter, of a job as a dishwasher for $6 per hour and the opportunity to sleep inside the restaurant. Some of the homeless are mentally ill. Some may be ashamed of the situation in which they find themselves, and would rather remain anonymous than become an actual face to be pitied...
Mere exhortations to go out and find a job are not going to eradicate the homeless problem. And as a society, we have yet to find an answer. Many social programs that are aimed at helping the poor and needy have simply failed...
...these people need is hope for a future, and to force them merely to survive until the next check arrives breeds a dependency that is hard to break. One promising program, which forms the crux of the newly-reformed welfare system, is that in which aid is combined with job-training. Such a plan has met with minor success in the states in which it had been introduced...