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...industry. Charity too needs its entrepreneurs, dreaming on a different scale, and perhaps genius ripens most fruitfully in a free and private space. That may explain why 105,000 new service organizations were born between 1982 and 1987. "Volunteers are now expected to solve problems," says Jerri Spoehel of the Volunteer Center of San Fernando Valley, Calif., "not just stuff envelopes...
Secrecy Barrier. Active job seekers, however, have had little better luck. Ed Spoehel, 44, a computer-program designer, was laid off on Aug. 3 from a job with TRW Inc. that paid around $20,000. He now subsists on weekly unemployment compensation of $65, some income that his wife picks up writing a column for a local paper, and regular withdrawals from his savings account. He has phoned at least 100 companies but got "only two meaningful interviews"-which did not land a job. His work was not only specialized but so secret that he cannot describe exactly what...
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