Word: paso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prime reason for the labor shortage is that legions of young job applicants are rejected for lack of skills. Not everywhere, however: when businesses in El Paso need trained workers, they know they can find them in an unlikely- looking place. Ringed with a barbed-wire fence and patrolled by guards, the white stucco compound alongside Interstate 10 could pass for a correctional institution. But the 440 blue-uniformed trainees at the El Paso Job Corps Center are being nurtured, not punished. Since 1970 the center has taken in 8,000 barrio youths and returned them to the community...
...success rate has been high. Fully 95% of the center's students complete a six-month term in one of eight vocational programs. Of those who graduate, 96% have been placed in jobs, and the vast majority stay employed for the long term. With that record, the El Paso center has ranked No. 1 for the past ten years among the 107 Job Corps units in the U.S. Declares Director David Carrasco: "The community is sold on us. We're turning out a proven product...
...Error, a sitcom starring Mexican-born Comic Paul Rodriguez as the grungy half of a mismatched pair of Hispanic roommates, debuted on CBS in March. But the show drew abysmal ratings and was canceled after just three weeks. Juarez, a drama about a Mexican- American lawman in El Paso, was intended to go on ABC's prime-time schedule last January. It was abandoned because of "creative differences" between the network and Writer-Producer Jeffrey Bloom (who had his name removed from the credits when one episode was finally aired in late May). Among the pilots considered for slots...
...system by which courts, legislatures or bar associations would compel attorneys to donate their time, sometimes with the option of paying a fee to be excused. Programs of that kind have been imposed by courts in a number of areas around the country, including Westchester County, N.Y., and El Paso, as well as at least four local bar groups. Legislatures in Oregon and Washington have also looked into it, though with no action...
...West Regional on Friday at Los Angeles, Arizona (31-2) meets Cornell (17-9); Seton Hall (21-12) plays Texas-El Paso (23-9); Iowa (22-9) battles Florida State (19-10) and Nevada-Las Vegas (27-5) plays Southwest Missouri State...