Word: on-the-job
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...Wiping out the last job programs financed under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, which has already been cut from $7.8 billion this fiscal year to $3.5 billion next. In addition to ending the program of hiring 300,000 unemployed people for public-service jobs, the Administration seems ready to end subsidies to private businessmen for the on-the-job training of 500,000 disadvantaged youths...
Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco are beginning a three-year study of 250 patients with the disease to explore the connection with DES as well as other possible influences, including race, social class, on-the-job exposure to chemicals, even the type of underwear favored. One theory holds that men who wear tight shorts run a greater risk of developing the disease...
...after the seventh grade and had only recently passed a high school equivalency test, began reading medical texts, looking for clues. Then, thinking she could learn even more by working at a hospital, she began a one-year course to become a licensed practical nurse. The program offered on-the-job training at Baptist Hospital; when she graduated she joined the staff. In her free time, she inquired about procedures and the doctors who had cared for Becky...
...back to a four-day 32-hr. schedule?a reduction the controllers seem to want more than pay increases. While they apparently would not accept a salary cut to compensate the Government for their reduced hours, most PATCO members see this issue as the key to lowering their on-the-job anxieties and enhancing safety. The Government at first refused to consider any shortened work week, fearing that similiar demands from other federal workers would start a budget-busting trend at a time of general spending cuts...
...goal of the plan is to put 500,000 young people (ages 16 and 17) either to work or in specialized instruction programs by 1983. The government-financed on-the-job training will be expanded from 440,000 slots to 550,000. Some 50,000 teen-agers will be encouraged to stay in school or to take vocational courses. To open up more jobs for young people, the program will beef up retirement benefits for elderly workers. To encourage firms to sign up teenagers, the government will pay $28 for every employee under 18 who earns $74 a week...