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...require a decades-long struggle against that most powerful of vested interests, inertia. Correcting the inefficiencies of workers in the service trades?repairmen, waiters, barbers and laundry employees?may be more difficult yet; it will take nothing less than a cultural change. Such jobs need not be regarded as menial; the person performing a service is exercising power, doing something for the customer that he cannot do for himself. But the U.S. has long been moving in the opposite direction, toward the state that John W. Gardner, head of the Urban Coalition, warned about in his book Excellence: "The society...
...Caste was stronger than color, but the desired light skin was most common among Brahmans (priests), who ranked ahead of Ksha-triyas (warriors and administrators), Vaisyas (traders and farmers) and, finally, dark-skinned Sudras (menial laborers of all kinds...
...Alexander Daniel, the 20-year-old son of Yuli, was denied admission to Tartu University in Estonia, although he had been accepted earlier and had graduated at the top of his high school class. Recently he was fired from a menial job in the computer center of the Moscow Engineering Institute. At a meeting called to discuss young Daniel's case, the rector of the institute, Nikolai Strel-huk, expressed particular dissatisfaction about the number of Jews, like Daniel, who had been hired at the institute...
...they continued to do menial helper's work, how could they advance? In order to become journeymen they must do journeymen's work," he added...
...home with their youngsters. The requirement that family-assistance recipients accept "suitable" employment also worries some. They fear that the lack of safeguards in Nixon's plan against abuses of this requirement could lead to unemployed people being trained for skilled work and then being forced to accept menial jobs to qualify for federal...