Word: manuals
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Instead, the U.S. has shed blue-collar jobs -- 5 million since 1975 -- as it experienced an accelerated substitution of knowledge and capital for manual labor. Without such a substitution, Drucker argues, no modern nation can hope to remain competitive. Says he: "The attempt to preserve . . . blue-collar jobs is actually a prescription for unemployment...
...Contras' brutal methods. Reports from Nicaraguans who have left the rebel organization indicate that 46 of 48 Contra field commanders are former members of late dictator Anastasio Somoza's National Guard. And, as if their experience in oppression were not enough, CIA advisers supplied the exiles with a training manual which encourages political assassination and details methods of torture...
Gorbachev is a realist who does not make grandiose promises. At a 1961 party congress, Nikita Khrushchev unveiled a program predicting that Soviet citizens by 1980 would enjoy free transport and housing, the end of manual labor and living standards that exceeded those of any capitalist country. Instead of placebos, Gorbachev's 15-year plan sets targets: industrial output and national income will double by the end of the century, and labor productivity must grow by 130%. To meet those goals, the economy is supposed to expand at a 4.7% annual rate, about twice the pace of the past decade...
Toad gave up pen and pencil years ago, when he discovered the Smith-Corona manual portable typewriter. Toad loved his Smith-Corona. He played upon it like a flamboyant pianist. Now he massaged the keyboard tenderly through a quiet phrase, now he banged it operatically, thundering along to the chinging bell at the end of the line, where his left arm would abruptly fire into midair with a flourish and fling home the carriage return...
Some of the new models feature Spanish-language controls and instructions. Others have oversize knobs and large-type instructions for those with poor eyesight. For blind customers, a Braille operating manual and a Braille overlay that easily snaps onto the control panel of the machines are available. All of the machines are simple push-button models with no fancy electronic controls...