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...tradition, a junior high school graduate will accept a manual job, a high school graduate will take only white collar work, and a college grad only a managerial or professional post. Right now, 92% of Japanese youths are heading for high school diplomas and 68% of those getting them want college degrees. The danger, the White Paper points out, is that Japan's new low-growth economy will not generate enough jobs at the top, while the demand for blue-collar workers will go unfilled...
...involved. As one Coast Guard cadet said, "You're up in the rigging in a storm, the sail's flapping in your face, it's pitch dark, and somebody yells to clear the foreroyal buntlines. You can't go look it up in your sailing manual...
...post roads and fast packets between cities, news still takes weeks to travel from one end of the Colonies to the other. And because printing technology has advanced little since the Boston News-Letter became the first successful colonial newspaper in 1704, it still takes two men with a manual press ten hours to turn out a typical weekly run of 600 copies. Only three of the nation's 32 papers are printed more frequently than once a week. The most prolific: Benjamin Towne's Evening Post, which was able to insert that brief mention of the Declaration...
...other hand, Barnet and Mueller fail to present their program systematically. They mix arguments from different theoretical perspectives eclectically, conflating, for example, Daniel Bell's claim that manual labor in the "post-industrial" U.S. is becoming progressively less important with Stanley Aronowitz's that the labor force is being generally proletarianized. The book jumps from general to particular in so haphazard a manner as to make it easier to find anecdotes about Harold Geneen's world vision or the loss of shoemaking jobs in Lynn than precise information about the importance of the global corporations in the U.S. economy...
Whereas many schools for the deaf, especially in Europe, insist that their students learn to lip-read-theoretically, to make their handicap as unnoticeable as possible-Gallaudet favors a "total communications" approach. Signed English, or manual translation of the language, is used in classes as the teachers speak their lectures, while Ameslan, or American Sign Language, a grammatically different and faster sign language, is used by some teachers and is popular among the students out of class. Since many Gallaudet students enroll with vocabulary deficiencies, especially if they are deaf from birth, a preparatory year is added to the normal...