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...Rhodes' case is considered a success. More often, women seek in-house channels to make their discomfort known. "The vast majority of women try to report sexual harassment informally within their company," says Helen Neuborne, executive director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. "It's the companies' failure to respond that leads to lawsuits...
...GROUP OF PATIENTS HAS SUFfered more from undermedication than young children. For years, many doctors insisted that babies under six months didn't feel pain and those just above that age didn't experience much discomfort. Both ideas are now discredited. Nonetheless, cautions Bruce J. Masek, head of behavioral medicine at Children's Hospital in Boston, "society is still hysterical about making a four-year-old a heroin addict...
...letter, which was delivered to house residents yesterday, listed the discomfort caused to non-smokers and the hazards of secondary smoke as reasons...
EVEN WHILE THE 102ND CONGRESS RACED TO ADjourn for the campaign finale, the Democrats somehow found time to stick controversial issues smack into President Bush's face. They didn't win many fights, but they did raise the discomfort level in the White House to record levels. To the Republicans' collective relief, the family-leave bill died on Wednesday when the House failed to override Bush's veto of the legislation, which the White House opposed as antibusiness. On Friday the House left Bush's abortion "gag rule" in place, again failing to muster the necessary two-thirds vote...
Four percent is a reasonable figure, slightly above the rate of inflation, neither outlandishly high nor ridiculously low. And it is a figure that, as the staff rightly points out, the University can afford with relatively little financial discomfort...