Rob Franklin, 40, who lives and works in Houston during the week and sees his family in Austin only during weekends, told Bloomberg News that his distant job in finance has taken a toll on his family life.
It also called for tax incentives and loans to spur development in poor areas, transportation assistance to help people get to distant jobs and an array of other subsidies and grants to help poor people with housing and education.
Migrant workers who leave home for distant jobs can stay in touch with their families.
Time since first employment showed similar trends as observed with duration of employment with increased risks for more distant jobs (i.e., exposures).
Our oil whiz, Secretary Bodman of the Department of Energy, perhaps a distant cousin of "Heckuva Job Brownie" of Katrina fame, wrote a letter to the New York Times on March 30 rebutting points in an editorial, "Pain at the Pump and Beyond" from March 25, proceeding, I would imagine, on the assumption that everyone is as much out of the loop on oil issues as he is.
Like Bernstein's very un-liturgical "Mass," "Kaddish" has a reputation as a rather overwrought work not so much for the music as for the narration, in which the great Lenny rails, Job-like, against a distant God ("handsome, jealous, Lord and lover"), but, unlike Job, compares himself a little boastfully to the Creator himself.
LAST TRAIN HOME Lixin Fan's documentary follows a middle-aged couple, the Zhangs, as they return from their factory jobs in a distant city to celebrate the New Year with the family they left behind in a rural community.
After college, the writer Irving Kristol, a distant relative, helped her land a job at The China Quarterly, a new journal.
"People here always suspected that he would run away with the money and leave them with nothing -- no land, no income, no job," said Li Chunfa, a distant relation of Li Haicang's.
The final set of that series is out -- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Volume 3 ($129.99; Paramount) -- and now that the little tyke Indy is a distant memory, it does a great job of making him the Zelig of action heroes.
