Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such squabbling will probably be put aside. With Mir stabilized, the crew is looking ahead to its next space walk--this one outside the ship to find and patch the elusive holes in Spektr's skin. NASA has agreed to allow Foale to train for that orbital excursion, though just when it will take place and whether he'll actually participate is still undecided. NASA officials firmly state, however, that as long as Mir stays sound, they will proceed with plans to send astronaut David Wolf up to relieve Foale in late September. Ghost ship or not, Mir will apparently...
Executives of Cablevision were likewise searching for good workers when they hooked up with a community group called the South Bronx Overall Development Corporation. "Our biggest problem is turnover," says Brian Douglas, a spokesman for Cablevision. "We bring someone in and train them, and two months later, they're gone." But of the 130 cable installers that street-savvy SOBRO has placed at starting wages of $8 to $10 an hour over the past four years, 82% are still on the job. As part of its training, SOBRO teaches its charges to change their "street" attitudes--the survival posture...
WINGING IT. United Airlines plans to hire 400 welfare recipients in slots from reservation clerks to cabin cleaners this year. The carrier has been using a nonprofit agency called GAIN (Greater Avenues to Independence) to recruit and train the newcomers, who earn from $5 to $10 an hour to start. To help smooth any turbulence, United assigns mentors to welfare hires for their first 60 days on the job. "Mentoring is the key to the whole welfare-to-work program," says Talani Wilson, 23, a new personnel clerk and single mother who had been spending six hours a day commuting...
...TIME Washington correspondent Bruce Van Voorst says the year-old program has performed poorly, and faces "enormous challenges." That's because federal, state and local governments aren't working well together to train welfare recipients. "They're headed for a crunch," says Van Voorst. So far, a mere 750 companies have promised to hire at least one welfare recipient. And it's not as if the federal government is setting an example: It has, so far, hired a scant 410 welfare recipients...
...reliable asset, will not change and won't lose their unique energy, courage and vision for a bright tomorrow. And in the eyes of many, this might be enough to assure Hong Kong's future success. In the city of Lo Wu, at the border with China, the ultramodern train station is packed with masses of Chinese from the territory going to the mainland for a weekend or a short business trip. Their faces, their radiant smiles and spontaneous enthusiasm suggest the conclusion that maybe, for the extraordinary people of Hong Kong, the future has come well before July...