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...jobs have been created by fast-growing small and medium-size companies. The 100 most rapidly expanding U.S. firms last year, according to Inc. magazine, employed an average of 506 workers each, up 835% since 1979. By contrast, the members of FORTUNE magazine's roster of the 500 largest industrial firms have shed 2.2 million jobs, or more than 10% of their workers, during the same period...
Much of America's job growth is in the service sector. Workers performing every task from plumbing to neurosurgery have increased from 53% of the labor force in 1950 to 70% today. In the 1970s, the largest gain in total employment was made by secretaries, whose numbers rose by nearly 1 million. That was followed by a 556,000 increase in cashiers and the addition of 501,000 registered nurses...
Indeed, health care has been a major source of new jobs. The 63-year-old Cleveland Clinic has become one of that city's largest private employers. Surgeons at the hospital perform some 4,000 coronary bypasses a year, and a $500 million building program is under way to expand the 1,000-bed facility. The hospital's payroll has almost tripled during the past ten years, to 7,400 professional and hourly workers, including 2,000 residents of the largely black Hough district that surrounds the clinic...
...unfortunate boost to protectionism and put President Reagan in an election-year bind. Sweeping restrictions would be against his own free-market principles, but a vote against steel and copper quotas could hurt at the polls. New import quotas could also cause problems abroad. Chile and Canada, the two largest U.S. suppliers of copper, lobbied strongly against cutbacks. Steel producers like Mexico and Brazil have already announced voluntary restraints on their exports to the U.S., and further reductions would aggravate their debt woes...
...last game, Boston 52 to the Lakers 33. Forward Cedric Maxwell, with a flair for rising up at great occasions, scored 14 points at the foul line alone. This championship seemed to prompt a broader interest than usual, and the seventh game drew the largest TV audience in pro basketball history. When the live and ravenous crowd broke through and overran the court, Jabbar was stripped of his goggles, though not of his clear view. "It got away from us," he said simply. "I don't think it matters too much now who has the most talent. They...