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Consider: the former head of a major U.N. agency routinely charged the organization for business trips already paid for by individual governments. A high official at U.N. headquarters in New York City is promoting the career of his mistress in a well-paid U.N. job. A key adviser at one of the U.N.'s most controversial agencies is said to be an alcoholic too seldom sober to do much work. And the head of a worldwide agency is reputed to have bought his job by handing out cash--bundles provided by his national government stuffed into a suitcase--to delegates...
...very well-paid profession and it's very easy to get into the business," said one student, who spoke on condition of anonymity...
...these trends have created an "industrial reserve army" -- to borrow a term from Karl Marx -- so large that a quite extraordinary and prolonged surge in output would be required to put all its members to full- time, well-paid work. Two indications of the yawning chasm between job supply and demand, in Detroit alone: in October, the Detroit Post Office handed out 20,000 applications for such jobs as clerk, sorter and letter carrier, even though it announced it would have at most a few hundred openings and that some of them would not be filled for three to five...
While Bok acknowledged in an interview yesterday that the well-paid professions all need well-qualified and talented people, he cited the problems which occur in these fields when the highly-skilled person enters the work force...
...Foster, for example, then a deputy press secretary, earned $85,000, 42% more than deputy press secretary Alixe Glen ($60,000); Steve Hart, then a deputy assistant to the President ($115,300), earned 65% more than Judy Smith ($70,000), who had the same title. Sighed one of the well-paid men: "It's not gonna look so good that the guys are making so much more. But I'll bet there's a similar gap on Capitol Hill...