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Technology's dazzling breakthroughs shake up the white-collar world...
Despite some initial grumbling that the new machines would turn them into white-collar automatons, secretaries and clerical people usually welcome the appearance of a word processor or minicomputer console on their desks. Betty Mates, 31, a Citibank clerical worker for close to 13 years, now uses a Digital Equipment Corp. minicomputer in the bank's letters-of-credit department. Says she: "The department used to be chaos. One letter would get handled by four, five or six people. But with the new system, one person handles everything. I had no trouble adjusting. To me it was like...
...also substantially protected from inflation and old age. And he is close to being recession-proof, living blissfully in what former Attorney General Griffin Bell calls "the land of the lotus eaters." Including the 9.1% pay raise that took effect in October, the average annual salary for federal white-collar employees is $23,000 in the capital area. Federal pensions are boosted to keep up with the cost of living not once but twice a year, costing taxpayers an extra annual $500 million. When President Carter tried to reduce that raise, the federal employees' unions mounted a zealous lobbying...
Among Hispanics over age 16 almost 90 per cent have at one point been employed. About 84 per cent of these are blue-collar--more than half work in factories. Laborers, carpenters and semstresses are the next largest blue-collar job categories, while secretaries compose the largest number of white-collar workers...
...more a month. Poor tipplers get help through Medicaid or at free faculties run by the Salvation Army. But where is the middle-class sufferer to go? Though college-educated professionals or managerial people account for a sizable portion of the nation's estimated 10 million alcoholics, white-collar drinkers traditionally have had to fight their addiction while coping with everyday life, a daunting task even with the aid of groups like Alcoholics Anonymous...