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Like many union contracts, A T & T's new one says that workers whose jobs are eliminated by automation will be given training so that they will have the skills needed to perform another job. But the Bell contract attempts to go beyond that by starting training long before employees even learn that their jobs may be wiped out. The company is expected to spend about $36 million for job-displacement training and career-development classes in technical, sales, clerical and other basic skills that will enable union members to broaden their career horizons and enrich their lives. Says...
...longer does a bank failure result in angry customers milling outside locked doors, or widows and orphans being stripped of their life savings. Closings have become so routine that agencies like the FDIC perform them with robot-like precision. Typically, authorities move in after business hours on Friday and freeze accounts. By the following Monday, they have either paid off the depositors or allowed another bank to assume control. But such transitions are not without cost. The FDIC spent $870 million last year, mostly to compensate private financial institutions for taking over bad loans. Moreover, bank shareholders can see their...
...most powerful adhesives. He may work out a sequence of ten or so moves to take him up an overhang hundreds of feet in the air, then discover that the route cannot be forced any farther. Without delay, before his muscles begin to tire and shake, he must then perform the ten-move ballet perfectly in reverse order. "You can't forget the fact that you're right next to the edge all the time," he says. "If you make any kind of mistake, you're going...
...test, called chorionic villi sampling (CVS), is a painless procedure and can be done in a physician's office as early as the fifth week of pregnancy. To perform it, the obstetrician inserts a long thin tube through the vagina into the uterus. A second doctor, following the procedure on an ultrasound monitor, helps the obstetrician position the catheter between the lining of the uterus and the chorion, a layer of tissue that surrounds the embryo during the first two months and later develops into the placenta. The goal is to suction up a sample of the chorionic villi...
...this volume, is a devout believer whose wife has left and divorced him, making it impossible for him to marry again with the church's blessing. And he will not do so without it: "For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love." Years of loneliness have strengthened his faith and given him a sense of how his marriage failed: "Twelve years later I believe ritual would have healed us more quickly than the repetitious talks we had, perhaps even kept...