Word: benefit
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...time the bill hit the Senate floor, its momentum had become irresistible. Even major elements of the business community had come around. Corporations do not benefit uniformly from the many deductions and special rules in current law; for example, one study showed that the effective tax rate on major oil companies is only 8.2%, while wholesalers pay 35.5%. High- tax companies joined with corporate giants like General Motors and IBM, which hoped for a boost to the economy, to create the Tax Reform Action Coalition. When the final vote by the full Senate came in June, the bill passed...
...California law requiring employers to grant as much as four months of unpaid leave to women who are disabled by pregnancy or childbirth. The law may sound innocuous, but it is a red flag to the many feminists and civil libertarians who say that singling out women for special benefits is discriminatory and dangerous. For this reason, NOW and the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union are in effect supporting a legal challenge to the California law brought by a Los Angeles bank. Friedan says it is "outrageous" for feminists to align themselves with an employer...
...management calls the action a strike. By any name, predicts Union Spokesman Gary Hubbard, "it's going to be a long fight." The walkout began after negotiations on a new contract broke down. USX rejected a union offer of a wage freeze, insisting that the company needs pay-and-benefit concessions to stay in line with industry labor costs. Said a tough-talking USX Chairman David Roderick: "We're going to get a competitive labor agreement, and we'll settle for nothing less...
...generated 9,745 pages of transcripts in 68 days of testimony. Using CAT technology, Stenotypist Joel Hillman was able to produce printed transcripts of each morning's proceedings soon after the lunch break. Besides offering instant access to the record, the new bench-top machines provide an unexpected benefit. Judge Marshall, who at first found the terminals "distracting," has discovered that he can sometimes prepare for other cases during routine testimony, consulting the monitor from time to time to keep up with the proceedings...
Ever since leaving Genesis about eight years ago, Gabriel has become an innovator and an active conscience in rock. His early single "Biko," which sets lyrics about South African repression to eerie synth guitar and tribal rhythms, proved to be a big hit at the recent Amnesty International benefit concert. But old Gabriel fans are going to hear little or none of his former complexity on So. Instead, Gabriel has filled this album with a bunch of love songs that are equally pretty and banal. In short, this will probably be the best Phil Collins album ever made...