Ms. Cotter said about four out of five workers don't last through the first year.

Indeed, eight out of ten manual workers are paid weekly in cash.

Some 2,500 out of over 8,000 workers began taking the masks when they went into the forest to cut wood, collect honey or fish.

Today, six out of seven nonfarm workers are privately employed.

Virtually all the job growth has come in the sprawling service sector, which employs four out of five American workers these days.

For the rest of the 1990's, some studies project, two out of three new workers will be female.

The sprawling service sector, which employs four out of five workers, created 198,000 jobs last month.

Nearly one out of five workers who lost a full-time job between 1991 and 1993 was still without work last year.

Six out of 10 Iraqi workers are without jobs, and six million live in chronic poverty.

Nine out of ten workers were on the dole.