Word: placement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their benefits are cut off, would that not amount to punishing the children for the sins of the parent? And will jobs be available in an economy where the unemployment rate for years has stubbornly hung at 7% or higher? The New York task force pithily observes that "job placement programs cannot work without jobs." Pete du Pont, the conservative former Governor of Delaware who is now running for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, proposes that the Government become the employer of last resort, and that might be extremely expensive...
More and more companies try to help departing employees find work. Seven years ago, 16% of the 1,000 largest industrial companies offered job-placement or counseling services for outgoing employees. Today, 51% do. In addition, private agencies set up to help laid-off workers find jobs are proliferating. Some 300 of these outplacement firms now operate, compared with twelve companies a decade ago. Says Robert Hecht, chairman of Lee Hecht Harrison, a New York City-based outplacement firm: "Years ago people thought only deadbeats and the lame ended up in outplacement. But that has changed...
...delightful, but the standouts were Margaret Tracey, 19, who joined the company only eight months ago, and her partner, Jeffrey Edwards, 22, a veteran of not quite two years. The world of Fragonard may never have existed, but these two created it in their performance, Tracey with her perfect placement and polished gaiety of manner, Edwards with his ardor and already superior partnering...
Farther down the wall, the other large canvas, "Blue and Orange Combination" hangs majestic, a balanced four squares dominate the work. The different color placement and combination give the paintings wholly different movements and feelings. The repetition of the square--both within works and in the shapes of the canvas--make the paintings vibrate. "It is the color mixtures that gives a sense of movement and space," says Matthews...
...successful projects are those that offer job training. The Watts Labor Community Action Committee employs 600 people and runs on a $7.4 million annual budget. Each year the organization trains as many as 400 young men and women between the ages of 18 and 26 and boasts a 90% placement rate in such jobs as security guard, bank clerk and computer operator. Chicago's nonprofit Safer Foundation helps get jobs for about 60% of its clients. But for kids who go to Safer, young offenders with an average of ten arrests in their short lives, just having someone to talk...