Word: arizonas
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Work sharing, however, seems so far to be more successful in the U.S., where it is voluntary, than in Europe, where it is official policy. During the last recession, 134,275 workers in Arizona, California and Oregon participated in work-sharing programs that permitted them to get partial unemployment-insurance payments. An employee who works 20% fewer hours may thus lose only 8% of total compensation. At Signetics, a California electronics firm, some 4,000 employees spent fewer hours on the job in 1981 to avoid layoffs. Last year about 2,000 workers took part in the program...
...Congressmen, according to the report: ¶ Robert Badham, a California Republican, took nine trips in two years, seeing 29 countries, including Britain and Italy twice. ¶Frank Annunzio, an Illinois Democrat, visited Italy three times in two years, as well as eleven other countries. ¶Eldon Rudd, an Arizona Republican, made trips to the Far East twice, Latin America three times, Europe twice and an extended tour through Africa and the Middle East...
Copying the long-established techniques of private schools, state universities are beginning to appeal to their alumni for donations. Penn State, for example, will solicit its graduates for $200 million during a fund-raising effort now in the planning stages. Public universities are also asking Big Business for gifts. Arizona State is using $ 12 million it got from private industry to bolster its growing engineering program. Indeed, state schools are also trying to earn a buck just about any way they can. Wisconsin hopes to cash in on the 325 acres it owns in downtown Madison, and the University...
Even so, only a dozen Arizonans have so far asked for license applications. Not that Arizona expects many dope dealers to become licensed. The state wants to levy fines, $10 per oz. of pot and $125 per oz. of coke, on untaxed drug caches seized by police, regardless of the outcomes of criminal prosecutions. Last week came the first case: a man was charged with "possession for sale" of 247 lbs. of marijuana and assessed $39,520 for having no license or stamps...
...bitten by fleas that have been infected by the rodents. The Navajo Indians of the region seem particularly susceptible, owing to their outdoor lifestyle, their sheepherding and their free-running dogs, all of which increase the risk of infection. They account for half of the cases in Arizona and New Mexico, where the disease has been concentrated this year. Nonetheless, the incidence is comparatively low even among these Navajos...