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Those competing values are increasingly set against each other as Americans face more and more screening designed to combat drugs, drunk driving, terrorism, on-the-job thievery and, most recently, AIDS. Major league baseball players last month temporarily deflected a push for voluntary drug testing. The metal detectors familiar at airports are now found at many government buildings. In the first six months after the Dade County courthouse in Miami installed a detector last year, an amazing 3,000 weapons were discovered. Peter Bensinger, former administrator of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, estimates that about one-quarter of FORTUNE...
...drug use because, says Joe Gross, chief of employment, "we're very concerned about nuclear-plant safety, and this is one aspect of it--having a work force free of alcohol or drug abuse." Southern Pacific Railway claims that since it began drug and alcohol screening last year, on-the-job accidents and injuries attributed to human error have dropped by nearly...
Alabama's students, who had previously had little access to on-the-job training, now have a site for class projects. Says Ron Watson, a graduate student in mechanical engineering: "It's the unromantic end of the business, but it's good for me. When I do my project, it won't just be a pie in the sky, it will be real...
Some of the former models can actually act. Selleck reminds anyone within earshot that he studied the craft for 15 years. On-camera, he has the charm and unthreatening masculinity of a slightly more serious Burt Reynolds. Others are getting on-the-job training. "I try as hard as I can, but I see where I need improvement," says Barton. Still others, like the wooden Scalia, appear to have graduated from the Ali MacGraw School of Thespian Arts. "I would have preferred it if Scalia had had some acting experience," admits Thurm, who brought him into television. "But we weren...
Control Data of Minneapolis has been investing in the corporate retraining business for several years. It sells a computer and software system called Plato that lets workers teach themselves skills ranging from high school math to robotics, then follows up with on-the-job instruction. Insists Chairman William Norris: "You can't retrain unless you use computers. It costs too much for small companies otherwise." Control Data's effort has yet to pay off, but the company hopes Plato will be in the black next year...