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...employers realized that Puerto Ricans could be hard workers despite language difficulties, the barriers to factory work eased, Santiago says. Currently Cambridge industrial concerns such as Nabisco and Polaroid, and the newer electronics companies such as Advent and Cambion all hire significant numbers of Spanish-speaking employees...
...most important 30 of these outfits have combined operating expenses of $2.9 billion a year. The older agencies?including the Interstate Commerce Commission (founded in 1887), the Federal Trade Commission (1914), the Food and Drug Administration (1931), the Civil Aeronautics Board (1938)?impose limitations on particular industries. The newer agencies?the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1964), the Environmental Protection Agency (1970), OSHA (1970), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (1972)?issue orders to institutions across the board. Their potential for change, and for damage, is far greater than their more circumscribed predecessors. Says Kristol: "This creates...
...newer TV face, Pat Robertson,46, founding father of the Virginia, based Christian Broadcasting Net; work, will open the first component of a proposed $50 million combined communications school and university next fall. The Yale Law graduate, son of Virginia's late U.S. Senator Willis A. Robertson, recently inaugurated a new satellite transmitter?the first one to be owned by an independent TV producer ?to feed various Gospel programs simultaneously to the four CBN-owned channels and 130 other stations at an annual cost of $20 million. Pentecostalist Robertson also acts as host on the 700 Club, seen daily...
...training in India and Morocco, management development in Pakistan and Tanzania; it provides technical assistance in building work forces for developing nations that lack economic expertise. The I.L.O. has made 152 recommendations to set international labor standards for working conditions, hours and vacations, and has begun moving on such newer issues as occupational disease and sex discrimination in jobs. I.L.O. specialists helped set up the U.S. Social Security system...
...then, is simply not worth it--not the costs involved nor the anger posed to prospects for sane solutions to the intractable problems of nuclear escalation. Deploying newer and more deadly weapons in the past has never produced stability but has merely raised existing instability to higher and more costly levels. There is no reason to believe that the MX will be any different. For a negotiated, stable deterrence to endure, our efforts should be directed not at producing greater and more sophisticated weapons, but rather at eliminating the psychology of nuclear one-upmanship...