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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dolts and victims of rampant commercialism," says Thomas Sharkey, principal of Billerica Memorial High School in Billerica, Mass. "I consider this the best form of corporate-school partnership." David Bennett, superintendent of the St. Paul school district, cites lack of public funds as ; a key reason why schools would accept the offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wooing A Captive Audience | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...effort to further broaden access to legal advice, the government also proposed allowing lawyers to accept civil cases on a no-win, no-fee contingency basis, taking their payment out of their client's award. To prevent an explosion of litigation, the government wants to strictly limit the maximum lawyers can collect on contingency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Hard Cases, Strong Cure:Lawyers and doctors face reforms | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Indeed, perhaps pessimistically, humanitarian conservatism accepts the good, together with the bad, until time and circumstances allow for the attainment of the better. While common neo-conservatives mouth similar views, the humanitarian conservatives accept that people must move actively to bring those times and circumstances about. It is this belief that brings true conservatives closer to liberal reformers than to their heirs in the now-warped conservative tradition...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Rethinking the `C'-Word | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

Johnston, who spoke to 50 Kennedy School students and administators yesterday afternoon at a talk sponsored by the Center for Health and Human Resources Policy, said in an interview later that the legislature and the public would eventually accept the governor's spending plan...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: State Official: Tax Hike To Fund Social Agenda | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

...their promise, ESOPs can mean sacrifices for workers. In many instances, employees accept wage concessions in return for their stock. The United Steelworkers of America has saved dozens of failing mills in such wage- for-stock trade-offs. In distressed industries faced with low-wage foreign competition, says James Smith, a U.S.W. staffer in Pittsburgh, "one of the ways American workers can compete is by having some investment income along with a lower labor income." But an ESOP is no guarantee that a company will thrive. Despite its stock plan, New Jersey's Hyatt Clark Industries, a ball- bearing maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Own the Place | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

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