bill hoffer is the c.e.o. >> we've got job after job that 20 years ago would be a full- time operator, now it's a robot. >> reporter: there are fewer workers, but they're required to do more. >> they need to be able to read blueprints, they need to follow procedures, document what they're doing and that's all very important. >> reporter: right now, finding employees who can do all that is a challenge for hoffer plastics and for 40% of u.s. companies. the result: a revolving door of workers that cost businesses billions. >> why do we keep spending money to solve the same problem, over and over and over again? >> reporter: pat hayes is founder of another local company, fabric images, a textile printer. filling 150 positions here the usual way-- relying on diplomas and g.p.a.s-- left hayes frustrated. >> what does an "a" mean to an employer today? "i got an 'a' in math." what does that mean? nothing. where did you go to school? what level of course? was it accelerated? was it a college prep course? i don't know. >> reporter: to get a better read on an applicant's skill level, both fabric

in the region so the next six months are going to be critical for the hope is that at the end of hoffer year you will have a permanent deal in place between iran and the international community r.t. tel aviv. so while the global headlines this hour iraq's capital by the dutch i think guys who is an exposure is in creating cobol's killing over twenty four and injuring scores more close to the bluff happened in share neighborhoods where the dead missed a tight time getting a call ignored it then while the iraqi army is an atheist we're told that al qaeda linked militants in the city of ramadi this is the large part of it and. you foreign ministers have approved the deployment of several hundred troops to the central african republic to reinforce peacekeepers from france and the african union meanwhile a transitional parliament in the african country has elected a new interim leader amid i'm going clashes between rival christian and muslim militants that in the latest reports say at least fifty people have been killed in the country over the weekend as into a total death toll of over one t

scott hoffer is a volunteer with the snow crew. >> it's nice to know they can get out of their house if they need to. >> reporter: jim, in the next couple of hours the temperature is going to drop down to 0° here in minneapolis. and will stay below zero for 90 consecutive hours. >> axelrod: kate raditz of w.c.c.o., thank you. let's bring in meteorologist chris schaffer who is also with w.c.c.o. chris, we heard a report, 90 hours of frigid cold. how long will this frigid danger zone expand? >> jim, we'll have to endure this for three days. check all these temperatures. on monday, much of the midwest will feel like the planet hoth. many of these areas, nine below in chicago and the subzero reaches as far south as st. louis. >> axelrod: but it's not just the upper midwest. >> no, this polar express is going to barrel through the east and southeast, i think there will be freeze warnings as far south as florida and probably some excited kids in parts of alabama and georgia making snow angels and snowmen with one to three inches of snow. >> axelrod: snow in alabama, this is uncommon. chris

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precious metals and financial transactions however the move is just the beginning as for the next hoffer year iran and six world powers have to reach a final compromise but as all see is policy here of course the path to the agreement may not be easy. from today a deal between iran and the international community goes into effect that will see iran freeze parts of its nuclear program in return for the easing of sanctions in terms of the agreement they will no longer be restrictions on the rainy and exports of petrochemicals the country will also be able to import parts for its auto manufacturing industry and trade in gold and other precious metals the next six months are critical because it is during this time frame that the international community and iran will need to reach a final agreement that many fear without which could ultimately see the border middle east descend into chaos and possibly even a war what is clear is that there has been good will and the wanting for this deal to work that has overridden the skeptics and the voices calling for fresh sanctions but what is not clear

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this is an example, i think, of what a martyr and theologian feature on hoffer once referred to as cheap grace. cheap grace is grace that is unearned and undeserved and that it has since turned a blind eye towards things that are fundamentally wrong or even evo. now, my book is kind of a history book in no way. it is a history book in the sense that it tries to recount the changes in our basic military system that have occurred in vietnam and evaluate the consequences of this change is. the big change of course is one that occurred at the end of vietnam. that was the creation of the so-called all volunteer force, which despite that phrase, we should think of as a professional army. or to use the phrase that the founders of this republic would've used, a standing army. by and large, it seems to me our fellow citizens today be the creation of y'all volunteer hours of having been a good thing. certainly, the creation of the all volunteer force as a result of that, our reliance on professional soldiers have had the effect of relieving citizens of the neighbors possibility to contribute to th