Word: on-the-job
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...result is gross underinvestment in creating the on-the-job skills necessary for industrial success. Blue-collar workers are traditionally trained on the job, but with today's high turnover rates no firm wants to invest in training its work force since there is a very high probability that the workers will soon leave for another job. For each firm it is cheaper to bid, with higher wages, a skilled worker away from other firms, but this obviously does not work for the economy as a whole. The result is a perpetual shortage of skilled blue-collar workers whenever...
...trollops, up against the wall! This is Phyllis ("Never Met a Man Who Was a Cad") Schlafly speaking. Stop your lascivious behavior at the copy machine, cease your sultry coffee service, and no more sexually explicit typing. Don't you know that virtue is its own reward? On-the-job harassment: Hah! That's what you get for unchaining yourselves from your kitchen stoves and trying to pretend you have something other than chitlins and children to give the world...
...males have employed females, sexual harassment-whether a sniggering grab or outright sex-for-salary extortion-has been a fact of countless women's working lives. Yet as the proportion of women in the work force increased sharply in the past decade, so did the reports of on-the-job intimidation. According to the Center for Women Policy Studies, a Washington-based research group, as many as 18 million American females were harassed sexually while at work during 1979 and 1980. But according to antifeminist Crusader Phyllis Schlafly, most of those 18 million were asking...
After graduation in 1977. Hencken turned down a prestigious NCAA Scholarship for graduate study. In the opinion of his instructors, the award--one of five given annually to the nation's top scholar athletes--would not have enabled Hencken to study anything that on-the-job experience would not provide a better background...
Clark held that he would only be an administrator, carrying out the policy set by Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr. That did not reassure the Senators, who nonetheless recommended his confirmation by 10 to 4. Said Democrat John Glenn of Ohio: "This will be on-the-job training of the highest order...