Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven-hour sit-in last week in the Washington office of Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.) led to the arrests of four Boston area activists for the homeless who said they would stay until Kennedy endorsed a housing bill they supported...
...corporate efforts to help families are only beginning to gain momentum, and many working parents still face enormous difficulties. For that reason, family issues are among the hottest topics of political debate in this election year. Congress is considering more than 100 child-care bills, including the so-called ABC (Act for Better Child Care) bill. Backed by Michael Dukakis but opposed by the Reagan Administration, the measure would establish a $2.5 billion program of child-care grants to the states and would set federal standards for day-care facilities. Vice President George Bush has proposed an alternative approach...
Some of the proposals for greater federal involvement in family matters are aimed directly at business. The Family and Medical Leave bill would require businesses employing 50 or more people to allow workers up to 15 weeks a year of unpaid medical leave for a variety of family-related reasons, including pregnancy, stress and the care of ailing parents or children. The controversial bill, which would guarantee job security during such leaves, is strongly opposed by many business leaders as too costly, especially for smaller companies. Says Virginia Thomas, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The bill supposes...
...Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Eleanor Taylor, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, P. F. Bentley, William Campbell, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...watched by two bulky parking-lot security guards, a rat scurries across the back alley toward the courthouse-like former bank building that houses the L.A.T.C. A block away, streetlights glint on the grimy marquee of a shuttered porno cinema. A few evenings before, L.A.T.C. artistic director Bill Bushnell was accosted by a gang of toughs as he left for an opening-night party, but he got away without incident. Although patrons rarely encounter trouble, it is little wonder that even Bushnell refers to the theater's environs as "Skid...