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...types of jobs and the probable exclusion of women from them as a result, there are many services which the country will be relying on in the future but no trained people to provide them. Horner sees the Institute as taking the lead in pinpointing these areas and developing para-professional training programs so that women who might otherwise be kept out of work can be redirected towards jobs that will fulfill the needs of the near future...
...newest developments in the legal profession is the idea of the law commune--lawyers, para-legal workers and clerical workers forming collective practices, splitting fees usually on the basis of need. Communes have so far met with little success. "With the profit motive out of the picture, the people in the commune found that the lawyers were competing for the big cases, and the ego-satisfaction that their attendant publicity could bring," James writes of one commune...
After devising a para-professional training program. Haase's staff will operate it on a trial basis next year. The grant includes fellowship money for 12 women to take the program...
...third of the 10 million newly-minted college graduates will be employed in jobs that the BLS euphemistically claims will be "upgraded." Upgraded jobs are jobs previously held by non-college graduates: clerical jobs, sales jobs, para-professional jobs. The country is apparently headed for a bad case of structural underemployment-large numbers of people will be overqualified for the positions available to them...
Lemmer explained that the project was named after an effort by the "CIA and other para-military organizations" to rid South Vietnam of suspected communist cadres several years...