Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the play opens the lights come up on the living room of the Chamberlaynes. The dim lights, the cozy chairs and the attractive coffee table all do a tremendous job transforming the impersonal Mather House TV room into a semi-fashionable living space. The characters, members of a seemingly elite social set, chat amiably about basically inconsequential matters...
...first semester is especially crucial because Discovery seeks to provide these displaced home-makers with the confidence and support that they need to become self-supporting, as well as improved job skills...
...national network acts as a coordinating agency for programs across the country and lobbies for groups that require funding on a federal level, Cilik says. The groups offer a wide variety of services, from job retraining to counseling to daycare. "We call it a movement because once there was a name given to the movement it mobilized the situation," Cilik says...
...about the management program was that as women we've been locked into low-paying fields," says Couture, adding that the program has widened her business skills and made her more confident in the workplace. Couture, who has a six-year-old son, is planning to apply for a job as family day care coordinator in her town. She says the job appeals to her because it would combine her varied interests of social service, psychology and management...
Barton-Wilkins adds that although she had a job as marketing manager in Grimes Oil Company when she entered the program, she sees Discovery as way of bettering her credentials for future employment options...