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About 90% of home professionals are entrepreneurs who have started their own businesses or work for larger companies on a contract basis. The fastest- growing category, however, is that of the so-called telecommuter -- a homebound but salaried worker on a corporate payroll. The rise of telecommuting has been predicted by futurists ever since home computers appeared a decade ago, but the phenomenon is only now beginning to catch on. Since 1982 the number of corporate employees working at home has ballooned from 20,000 to 600,000, according to the Los Angeles-based Center for Futures Research. Link claims...
...improved over the summer," Forman said. "She's a hard worker and will put in the extra time. She does short sets effectively and is a good passer...
When he was still a lonely high school kid in Martins Ferry, Ohio, the factory worker's son who would later become -- in Critic Peter Stitt's phrase -- "one of the very great heroes of American poetry" used to drop by Margret Ashbrook's house and slide his poems across the table for Margret and her mom to see. "He showed us a poem that had the word slob in it, and we told him that was an unpoetic word," recalls Margret. "But he said that's how it is, and that's how he feels, and that...
According to the settlement, no worker will receive starting pay of less than $5.18 an hour, a 38 cent increase from starting pay before the agreement, said the university's chief negotiator, E. Peter Tufford...
...settlement followed three days of picketing and rallying during which there were some arrests, and one union striker was injured by a temporary worker's car, said David I. Stewart, assistant to the vice president for university relations...