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...husband and wife hold jobs in 57% of U.S. couples with children, up from 43% in 1978. In 1950 only 12% of mothers with children under six years old worked outside the home; more than 57% do so now. Over the past ten years, in fact, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. labor force has been mothers of children younger than three years old. More than half of these women have jobs today, up from a third...
...child-care problem grows, so does the burden of caring for the elderly. Americans who are 75 or older are the fastest-growing segment of the population. Sociologists have dubbed today's workers the "sandwich generation" -- a put-upon group that has to attend to children on one side and parents on the other. Says Robert Beck, executive vice president for corporate human resources at Bank of America: "The focus may be on child care now, but elder care will become the critical issue of the future...
...banks pull money out of Latin America, they are making other loans that could be equally risky. Though real estate loans helped get the S and L industry in trouble, they are now the fastest-growing segment of commercial- bank portfolios. For the first quarter of this year, 90% of the industry's $18 billion in new assets came from real estate loans...
...more certain project for the moment is the Hamburg-Hannover line, which the West German government committed itself to building last June, with operation scheduled for the mid-1990s. The track is planned as the first segment of a 600-mile Kiel-Munich line, but not all systems are go yet. Some politicians and many citizens remain unconvinced that the $1.8 billion needed for the first segment will be money well spent, especially with $1.35 billion already allocated for a high-speed conventional-railway project called the Inter-City Experimental. Transrapid supporters, however, do not think the choice between conventional...
...casino-express contract, maglev technology is already on its way to the U.S. Magnetic Transit of America, a subsidiary of West Germany's Daimler-Benz, broke ground in downtown Las Vegas last January for a slower-speed -- 50 m.p.h. -- maglev urban-transit system. Completion of the initial 1.3-mile segment of the Las Vegas People Mover is planned for 1991 -- perhaps a good year for dating the beginning of the maglev...