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Since many women in immigrant families do not work , they have fewer
opportunities to learn or practise the local language and can become very
isolated . In Australia , for example , data from the 1981 Census showed that
there were much ...
Since many women in immigrant families do not work , they have fewer
opportunities to learn or practise the local language and can become very
isolated . In Australia , for example , data from the 1981 Census showed that
there were much ...
Page 161
As technology has progressed , and equipment has become much more
integrated , the opportunities for manual intervention have been reduced . Nimble
fingers are no longer in such high demand . A third reason is that multinationals
now ...
As technology has progressed , and equipment has become much more
integrated , the opportunities for manual intervention have been reduced . Nimble
fingers are no longer in such high demand . A third reason is that multinationals
now ...
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Wages and business opportunities are less attractive in the United Kingdom , but
it has also been suggested that the weather there is discouraging and that
anyone educated enough to work their way through the byzantine bureaucratic ...
Wages and business opportunities are less attractive in the United Kingdom , but
it has also been suggested that the weather there is discouraging and that
anyone educated enough to work their way through the byzantine bureaucratic ...
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