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Sometimes, at the end of a typical twelve-hour workday, Duarte looks a decade older than his years. He seems especially weary after dealing with the usual parade of favor seekers, this one hoping for a job, that one requesting reprieve from a parking ticket. So popular is Duarte among the people that a Sunday open house at the Casa Presidencial in June drew a crowd of 3,000. The President, characteristically, insisted on posing for photos with each guest. When that proved too time consuming, he posed with them in pairs, then groups of ten, then delegations of several...
Though Pamela Cortez returned to her secretarial job shortly after giving birth to Daughter Kimberly, her thoughts stayed at home. As a result, her work suffered. Recalls Cortez: "I went through several baby-sitters trying to find a good one. I worried during the workday and found my mind drifting to my child." But now Cortez finds it much easier to concentrate on her job. Each weekday morning Kimberly, 2, rises at 6:30 and accompanies her mother as she drives to work at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Mass. Near by, in a former grade school leased by Wang...
...more. In the 13 years since its conversion into a Government corporation with a-mandate from Congress to become financially self-sustaining, the Postal Service has turned first class. It is handling more mail than ever: 119.4 billion pieces last year, 400 million pieces every workday, up 4.7% from 1982. That is more by far than any other postal system in the world. Since 1971, the service's load has increased by 35 billion pieces, to 18 million new addresses...
...increasing room lighting or moving terminals away from a windows. To alleviate the placement problems, he has recommended that the VDT's be located at a specific distance from the user's eyes, so that his forearms are parallel to the floor DeBerardinas also suggested occasional breaks in the workday...
...large, sunny room on the 21st floor of a Tokyo skyscraper, Electronics Engineer Kazuhiro Fuchi, 47, has assembled a group of three dozen computer scientists who spend each workday in 1983 thinking...