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...other half, involving perhaps 3 million people, reflects a much more serious problem in the labor market: the mismatch between workers' skills and the skills needed by employers. Growing numbers of young people, particularly from minority groups, are joining the work force with such poor educational backgrounds that they are ill prepared for most jobs. The unemployment rate among black teen-agers has reached 50.1%. Foreign competition has cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs in such declining industries as autos, steel and textiles. In the auto business alone, 255,000 employees, or 23% of the blue-collar...
...Hardy ever have his Tess firsthand. As a young architectural draftsman specializing in church restoration, he courted Emma Gilford, a solicitor's daughter. It proved to be a mismatch worthy of one of his own plots. "What very strange marriages literary men seem to make," Fanny, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, remarked after meeting Emma. She might have said the same thing after meeting Florence Dugdale, Hardy's second wife, who suffered from chronic depression. Typing up poetry that addressed Emma as "woman much missed" did little to cheer up the second...
Maybe a central problem, for Chancellor as for Moyers, is that illustrated commentary blurs the distinction between news and opinion. The difficulty is television's strange mismatch of eye and ear: the ear often skeptically disputes what it is told, but the eye accepts as reality the picture before it. Words that might seem bland on an Op-Ed page can take on unexpected and unpredictable force when matched with pictures. Perhaps this is why, in a libel case in Cleveland, a federal judge refused to admit the typed transcript of a broadcast as evidence, ruling that the jury...
...Jack Marnaby. "I think Wellesley is inexperienced compared to us," he said during yesterday's match. None of the players from Wellesley competed in high school, while the Crimson's line-up is filled with former top-ranked prep schoolers... In a contest that should be less of a mismatch, the Harvard J.V.'s will play this same Wellesley team on Monday...
...entrance of the third member of this curious mismatch, a woman named Rosie (Claudia Silver), perhaps inevitably banks some of the flames that have been building, despite Moore's somewhat strained attempt at creating a melodramatic entrance. Silver carries herself with an appropriate semi-toughness, but the part offers a little less room for maneuver than do the others, a little less sense of transcending the ordinary. There's only so much Silver can do with the almost stock character of a supposedly worldly-wise girl with a heart of gold...