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...Maybe the administration is extremely concerned for employee relations after all. But in actions ranging from its willful disregard of student input to its inability to eradicate institutional sexism, the administration has yet to prove concern for anything but self-perpetuation. Maybe having a union with 3400 members to contend with will be enough to loosen the hierarchy's hold on power and spur reform...
...Nicaraguan people strike at the heart of Reagan administration policy in that region by questioning whether it seeks to bring about freedom or has some other, less benevolent purpose. The answer may be that U.S. policy objectives in Central America are no different from what some contend they were in Vietnam...
Opponents of the trade package contend, and many of its advocates admit, that the bill does not strike at the heart of the trade problem. Simply put, the U.S. is running a huge trade deficit because its economy, plagued by an excess of public and private spending and a lack of saving, is consuming far more goods than its industry can produce. While American exports climbed by 11.5% last year, imports rose nearly as much...
...controversial plant-closing requirement would oblige employers of 100 or more workers to give them 60 days' notice before shutting down an operation or conducting heavy layoffs (500 workers or a third of the labor force). Arguments for and against the proposal are less than compelling. Democrats and unionists contend that notice is an act of simple humanitarianism that allows workers time for adjustment to a blow that would otherwise shatter their lives. Says Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum: "It's time to mandate a little human decency." But many companies already give notice voluntarily or shut down a plant...
...violated an understanding that Allyssa would be placed solely in the care of her maternal grandmother until the hearing. Instead, they say, the child was left in the home of a stranger, where she was neglected and quickly fell ill. Tribal authorities deny that such an understanding existed and contend that the baby's illness was due to a change of formula...