11.  More and more residents are working in white-collar engineering, research and development, and technical jobs associated with the automotive industry.

12.  Reich called for the development of more vocational and academic programs to better prepare poorer youth for technical jobs.

13.  Schedule A, similar to the current state pay scale, would include para-professional, maintenance, administrative support and technical jobs.

14.  Such technical jobs as editing, set design and writing reflect a more or less practical balance between women and men.

15.  That story is a familiar one to researchers who are trying to pinpoint reasons for the relative lack of women in technical jobs.

16.  The higher paying technical jobs have usually been taken by better educated people from elsewhere.

17.  The rest of the technical job cuts are expected to come mainly from early retirements and other programs Delta describes as voluntary.

18.  They add that these women possess few working skills, even compared with the men from their former factories, who had tended to hold the technical jobs.

19.  Nelson said a generation of technical jobs are being lost to students from other nations whose lessons provide more depth.

20.  Oil companies argue that few Nigerians are trained to perform higher-paying technical jobs in the industry.