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...second economy also provides a veritable army of shabashniki, or moonlighters, who will replace floorboards, mend roofs, fix plumbing and do any numher of services that would take months to obtain from state-managed building repair crews. Some of these repairmen are highly skilled engineers who quadruple their salaries, tax free, by after-hours work. Simes observes that everyone who owns an auto-and there are now 15 million passenger cars on Soviet roads-is a permanent user of the parallel market. While it could take weeks to have a car repaired and months to obtain spare parts, affluent drivers...
...industrial sector, there has been an extraordinary change as automation has begun to replace both unskilled and semiskilled workers. The man on the production line is giving way to the man who watches the dials or the man who comes in, as a skilled worker, to repair the machine. Repairmen and foremen accounted for 75% of the growth in skilled jobs since...
...governing relations between the Vatican and Italy allows the Pope to dispense his own justice, and once in a while a case is considered serious enough to warrant the Holy See's cranking up its rusty court machinery. Last week one such proceeding was under way: four onetime repairmen for the Vatican's telephone exchange were on trial for stealing or receiving $10,000 worth of objets d'art in cat burglaries of several apartments in the Holy See, including the Pope's own chambers...
...officer of Harrell's own local. The two men had been on opposing sides of a bitter internal battle over the U.A.W.'s newly negotiated contract with Ford. On one side are the union's skilled tradesmen-the tool-and diemakers, electricians, mechanics, millwrights and repairmen. On the other side stand the union's leadership and the unskilled and semiskilled production workers...
...present the King with a request; it is usually referred to a minister for action or denied on the spot. Feisal has also been known to stop his car on the street, and step out to receive petitions from women. At noon every day, government officials, repairmen and anyone else allowed within the gates of the King's villa can join him there at a long, 40-seat table for lunch (usually bland meats, puddings and fruits in deference to his ulcers). In the afternoon he generally holds an informal reception for about 100 tribal and business leaders. Visitors...