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...study of 36,000 cancer deaths in Massachusetts over a three-year period found that construction workers and automobile repairmen--who often work near asbestos--had an unusually high rate of lung and other asbestos-related cancers...
...weather. One of the hypothermia victims was Bertha Heart, 80, who had somehow survived two previous winters without heat in her shabby South Side apartment. Peoples Gas had shut off her gas service in 1979. Explained a company spokesman: "She did not keep to her payment arrangements." Furnace repairmen, Illinois Bell Telephone (which in one day logged 613,000 calls to its Chicago weather information number, six times more than normal) and travel agents, among others, all had as many customers as they could handle. Said Travel Agent Jason Hess of his booming business: "Everybody wants to go to Jamaica...
...resolution is not even-handed. It essentially ignores student rights. It is enforced by a committee which lacks due process. It contains no reference to students residential rights (for example, the recent case in which University police entered a student room in the guise of repairmen). It does not even suggest there might be anything wrong with the Ad Board, although students may not appear before that body and a student's advocate may be the same person who brings the charges...
...American economy in the late 1980s is expected to have even more severe problems of worker shortages in some key industries. A Labor Department study shows that while the U.S. will need far fewer shoe repairmen, gas station operators and postal clerks by 1990, it will be looking for increased numbers of computer programmers, computer systems analysts and home health aides...
...Zimbabwe has dropped from about 300,000 to 180,000. White desertion psychologically hurts remaining whites, instilling in many a fortress mentality. And the tremendous loss of skilled white manpower can devastate newly independent states. In many post-independent states, complicated machinery cannot be fixed because all the skilled repairmen have left. Only about ten skilled fitters and turners remain in all of Zimbabwe...