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...increasingly resorted to taking part-time or temporary jobs without high pay or much chance of job development. (Coined by a job-placement magazine, "freeter" is a combination of the English word free and the German word Arbeiter that means worker.) Initially romanticized for their nonconformist attitudes when the trend was first spotted in the 1980s, the number of freeters has since grown to some 4 million, or about 20% of the country's 15- to 34-year-olds, according to the UFJ Institute, a Tokyo-based think tank. Now they're viewed as slackers, unproductive dropouts in a society...
...estimated 10,000 graffitists on the loose in the City of Brotherly Love, and some people profess to see an aesthetic value in their obsession. "We sense that there is a lot of creativity in these graffiti." says the Philadelphia Art Museum's David Katzive. "Most interesting, the trend is away from profanity and toward simple signatures -a kind of identity thing...
...small, private company that operates a call center in downtown Manila. Call centers, which do everything from handling customer-service inquiries to taking purchase orders, are a rare success story in the Philippines. "It's a sunrise industry," Arroyo told me, delighted by the chance to discuss a positive trend. "Four years ago, it was just beginning here. Today, it's employing about 70,000 young people and hiring thousands more each month. I think the sky is the limit...
Mitterrand now has more options. He is expected to show respect for the prevailing conservative trend, but he can find someone in the opposition closer to his own thinking. He might, for example, consider former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 71, who served as Premier from 1969 to 1972. Another possibility is Simone Veil, 58, a former Health Minister and onetime president of the European Parliament...
...does not matter what the current trend is in TV land [VIDEO, Sept. 29]: Mary Tyler Moore's last sitcom failed because it was populated with detestable characters mouthing dead jokes, not because it concerned a single woman. Valerie, on the other hand, succeeds because of the likable characters and lively dialogue, not because it deals with a nuclear family. To suggest otherwise, as you did, reinforces the belief that concept is more important than good scriptwriting, which just encourages mediocre producers to make more lousy shows. Joan M. Jacobson Lakewood, Colo...