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There is also a laboratory to do blood and urine tests and bacterial cultures. About half of MedStop's business comes from doing pre-employment physicals for companies or dealing with minor on-the-job injuries. Employers like MedStop, says Carlyle, "because time is money. We can get people in and out faster than an emergency room or doctor's office and do just as good a job...
...Orange or other chemicals. The House has also passed a program that would make qualified Viet Nam-era vets eligible for low-cost $200,000 Small Business Administration loans. Both the House and Senate agreed to extend for two years eligibility for the G.I. Bill's vocational and on-the-job training...
...became the first Saudi to hold SAMA's purse strings. A member of the kingdom's expanding corps of Western-educated technocrats, Quraishi has a master's degree in business administration from the University of Southern California, but has had to learn about banking through on-the-job experience. A trio of early outside advisers helped him to master the mysteries of global high finance: John Meyer, onetime chairman of New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust, Alfred Schaefer, once chairman of Union Bank of Switzerland, and Robert Fleming, who headed his own merchant bank in London...
...such jobs require more schooling than many white-collar professions. To become a journeyman diemaker, an apprentice must complete 8,000 hours, or four years, of shop work, practicing on-the-job skills for an average of just $4 an hour. In addition, the apprentice must also finish 600 hours of course work in a vocational school or an in-house training program. As skills improve, earnings pull ahead. In many shops a full-fledged diemaker can make as much as $40,000 yearly, with overtime. Such jobs in the U.S. rank seventh in lifetime earnings, behind insurance and real...
Some companies do operate effective in-house training and apprenticeship programs, but the cost is high. At Jenkins Bros, in Bridgeport, Conn., it takes an estimated $20,000 and up to four years of on-the-job training to develop a journeyman machinist. Cincinnati Milacron, the nation's largest machine toolmaker (1980 sales: $816 million), cranks out no more than ten journeymen machinists a year from its own apprenticeship program...