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...disabled students was begun last year. A student organization called ABLE (Advocating a Better Learning Environment) was founded to work collaboratively with the administration on establishing an effective program of disabled students' services. ABLE's recommendations acquired invaluable support last spring from a federal regulation implementing the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. That act requires that recipients of federal financial assistance make all their programs (not all their buildings) accessible to disabled students and that discriminatory hiring and admissions policies be abolished...
...close because they could not afford to meet requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He collects reports of hundreds of small companies that have abandoned pension plans because they could not comply with the expensive requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), "and so the worker winds up with no pension...
...Aspin, Congressman from Wisconsin: "The CIA can't be the only arbiter of what is or isn't classified. There ought to be somebody you can appeal to -an arbitrator set up by an act of Congress...
...That is a questionable proposition, considering that every single one of its new series failed last season. "There's a rule of thumb," says Producer Tom Miller, "that you don't have a full night of programming without one old show to act as anchor. Without that audience familiarity, NBC may be throwing two or three programs to the winds...
Resolutions of commendation, which pumped promiscuously out of most legislatures, got so overdone in South Carolina that one member this year exposed the absurdity with a resolution intended to commend "all persons, male and female, young and old, tall and short, fat and skinny, who have performed any act or deed during the past five months worthy of commendation." A sort of subdued microphilia was evident in Concord, where New Hampshire's solons spent several months intensely debating the question of whether they had any reason to be in session at all. In such an atmosphere...