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WASHINGTON (AP) —
More and more people who
work in offices are bringing
home a mate as well as a
paycheque, says 4 new study
that also finds some man-
agerial headaches associated
with nine-to-five romances in
the United States.

“It is now more likely that

future spouses will meet at

work than at school, social or
neighborhood settings,” says
one of the research reports
quoted in the study by the
Bureau of National Affairs, a
private i based in

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The study, Corporate Af-
fairs: Nepotism, Office Ro-
mance and Sexual Harass-
ment, said romance in the
work place emerged as an
issue after women began to
enter the work force in large
numbers in the 1970s, The
percentage of females who
work increased to 54.7 per
cent in 1986 from 34.8 per

cent in 1960, Commerce De-
partment figures show.

Office romances also have
become more common as the
average age of first marriage
increases and the number of
divorces and remarriages
rises, the study says,

And what better place to
get to know someone?

“If you work with some
one, you can see what kind of
person he is,” said Sarah
Crim, principal researcher
for the study. “Does he have
a messy desk? Does he easily
become angry at meetings?
Does he come to work on
time and work late? You find
out a lot more about a person
at work than if you go to a
party, where you'll just get a
superficial impression.”

Most corporations do not
have formal policies discour-
aging romances between em-
ployees, h some do

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OTTAWA (CP) — Worried
parents watching their child
coast through school, making
no progress, or failing behind
on the basics of reading and
math are turning to private
learning centres for help.
The schools have expanded
rapidly in Canada and offer

time-honored solutions to
apathy or frustration — ex:
tensive dii ic testing,

illness, new arrivals in a
province who have trouble
djusting to a diff cur-

self-confidence building and
highly individualized instru-
ction.

Students include children
who have missed long per-
iods of school because of

Cancer expert
predicts death

WASHINGTON (AP) —
Dr. Robert Gale, an Amer-
ican leukemia specialist who
treated victims of the 1986
Chernoby! nuclear plant dis-
aster in the Soviet Ukraine,
predicted Tuesday that 3,000
to 30,000 people will die of
cancer as a result of that
accident.

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Gale's forecast was a re-
vision of his predictions a
year ago that there would be
as many as 75,000 Chernoby!
cancer deaths.

Last year, British radio-
logists said they expected
that the delayed effect of the
radiation would add about
1,000 deaths to the estimated
30 million cancer deaths that
can be expected to occur in
Western Europe in the next
50 years.

Gale was interviewed from
Boston on CBS-TV's This
Morning program on the
easion of the second anni-
versary of the Chernobyl
disaster which killed more
than 30 Soviets and the
publication of his book, Final
Warning: The Legacy of
Chernobyl.

Half of the Chernoby) fat-
alities will occur outside the
Soviet Union, mostly in Eas-
tern and Western Europe,
Gale said.

riculum and others who have
simply “switched off,” says
Carol Beck, owner of two
Sylvan Learning Centre
schools in Ottawa.

The centres go beyond
traditional tutorial services
to include specialized work
with emotionally disturbed
children and those with vis-
ual and hearing problems.

The first two Sylvan cen-
tres in Canada opened in
Toronto and London, Ont.,
two and a half years ago.
Since then the company has
established 30 centres across
the country.

“Parents on the whole are
far more interested in edu-
cation,” Beck said. “In the
past, parents with children
having learning problems
just expected them to cope.
Now they are looking for
solutions.”

FINDS PROBLEM

Lorraine Robertson, an in-
structor with Skills Develop-
ment Centre Ltd. in Toronto,

oc- another private learning

centre, said a child often isn't
identified ax having a par-
ticular problem or the school
can't provide what is needed.
“A child with perceptual
problems often needs inten-
sive one-on-one attention but
the school system, for fin-
ancial reasons, can usually
only provide small groups —
not concentrated individual
attention,” Robertson said.

Mail delivery
shows improvement

OTTAWA (CP) — Mail de-
livery improved in the first
three months of 1988, but
service remains below the 99-
per-cent standard of reli-
ability promised a year ago
by Post Office president
Donald Lander.

Quarterly tests conducted
by the independent Toronto
auditing firm of Clarkson
Gordon show:

e@ 90 per cent of letters

mailed to addresses in the
same city arrived within the
two-day standard set by
Canada Post for local mail.

e 89 per cent of letters
mailed to addresses in the
same province arrived within
the agency’s three-day stan-
dard for interprovincial mail.

© 93 per cent of test letters
mailed to addresses outside
the province of origin met the
agency's four-day standard
for out-of-province mail.

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Smaller class sizes allow
teachers at private centres to
develop closer relationships
with the ehildren and they
become more aware of “when
to really push and when to
back off and move on to
something else,” she said.

All Sylvan instructors hold
teaching certificates and no
class has more than three
pupils.

Robertson said much of the
growth in her company’s
business has come from re-
ferrals by companies or from
school boards that want
specialized assessments
done. Because the school's
directors are professional
psychologists it cannot ad-
vertise.

Both women said such
schools must know their
limitations.

Sylvan won't admit chil-
dren who are mentally hand-
icapped and Robertson said
her company would be ecav-
tious, for example, in ¢on-
tinuing with a child it felt
needed psychiatric help.

Sylvan charges $75 for an
assessment. Reading and
math programs cost $260 a
month.

Skills Development wants
between $350 and $450 for
assessments, depending on
how technical they are and
whether a subsequent assess-
ment is needed for particular
areas. It charges up to $40 an
hour if a child has learning
difficulties based on per-
ceptual problems.

4-H club
loses
leader

By SHANE BATTING

Castlegar and District 4-H
Club has had a busy time re-
organizing after leader Jim
Straker resigned. The club
was sorry to lose him.

If anyone thinks they
might be interested in help-
ing the club or joining, don't
hesitate to attend the next
meeting, on May 6 at 7 p.m.
at Resker Hall in Robson.

The club held its public
speaking contest in February
with the following placing in
the senior division: first —
Kyle Duborel, second —
Shane Batting, third — Den-
nis Keen.

In the junior division it was
Jamie Keen first, Chris Dub-
ord second and David Miner
third.

The club has been busy
working on the educational
displays which it will be
taking to the regional rally
May 14 in Cranbrook. The
whole club will be attending
this rally.

The club has 10 members
and 20 future members.

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