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...problems of returning to work have grown more serious in recent years because of rapid technological advances. New skills are necessary--such as computer literacy--so it has become increasingly more difficult for women re-entering the work force to find jobs. "Jobs are going to become more technical. There needs to be some kind of training," Cilik says...
This has, unfortunately, not been an effective solution. Most drivers do not carpool, and few are willing to give up the freedom their automobiles provide, even for a day. Such a sacrifice is especially impractical in a city as spread out as Denver, which has no mass rapid transit system and only a small fleet of buses...
There aren't many other alternatives. There is little personal incentive to carpool, and emissions controls can hardly become more stringent. Denver could build a mass rapid transit system, such as a light-rail system, and in fact Denver civic leaders have been talking for years about doing just that. Such a long term investment would likely be less expensive than paying the short term costs of automotive adjustments each year. But the money for such an investment would, of course, have to come from the taxpayers...
...price that the taxpayers will pay for too rapid financial deregulation and laxness in oversight is murky at this time, but, in the long run, will be staggering. Bank bailouts may well cost the taxpayers billions of dollars. Even though the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has a fund of about $15 billion to deal with banks in difficulty, this is not likely to be adequate to deal with the amount of trouble that could arise as a result of a serious recession and Third World-debt defaults. American banks have an exposure of close to $100 billion to Third World...
...newly invigorated presidency but also retained his post as Communist Party General Secretary. Of the twelve voting members of the ruling Politburo, all but three have now been appointed by Gorbachev. Yet at 57 he remains the group's youngest member, a reminder of just how remarkable his rapid rise to power has been. Other major moves -- up, down and sideways...