Word: on-the-job
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Sociologists and their journalistic popularizers have been having at the factory hands for some time now. Everyone knows by now that they suffer intense feelings of on-the-job anomie and alienation that show themselves in absenteeism, alcoholism and other unpleasantries. We have heard that they feel simultaneously exploited (by both their employers and their unions) and ignored (by the rest of society). But such matters are not much discussed in movies. Paul Schrader, previously best known as the writer of Taxi Driver, which dealt with another sort of disfranchisement, deserves high marks for originality as prime mover, director...
...sense, the trip might have been more important in terms of Jimmy Carter's on-the-job education than in terms of concrete accomplishments. Reported TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud: "Carter cannot help being changed by his experiences abroad. He has seen the poverty of India, the grimness of Poland, the civilized beauty of France. Conversations with the likes of Prime Minister Desai of India and President Giscard of France will enhance his sophistication in foreign affairs. People were interested in Carter, seemed to like him and respect him. He did not excite them or move them. Yet he seemed...
...staff last spring by hiring veteran Congressional Insider William Cable as his deputy. The addition of Cable, former staff director of the House Administration Committee, says Mo Udall, has "helped the operation immensely." With Cable's assistance, better coordination within the White House and a bit more on-the-job training, Carter's own representative in Congress might just be able to spend next year influencing Senators and Representatives more -and apologizing to them less...
...Utah have been getting around this problem for three years with a "work experience and training project." The Utah plan, covering approximately 475 welfare recipients at a time, pays no wages as such. But it does provide transportation and other minimal expenses for three days a week of "on-the-job training" in tasks ranging from tree planting to house painting to typing...
...Robert Byrd complains that the President's energy program "was not thought out." He also feels that Carter states lofty goals, then fails to follow through; that he is trying too much without knowing enough. As Byrd told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, "He's getting good on-the-job training, but he has so little experience that there may not be time to learn enough...