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...quotas, the Senate last week voted 95 to 5 to pass a civil rights bill. The House is expected to act quickly to adopt the compromise bill, which overrides eight Supreme Court decisions and makes it easier for employees to sue in job-bias cases. An amendment to extend civil rights protections to Senate employees caused a last-minute sideshow of debate. Under the measure, the Senate's 6,000 workers, as well as political appointees in the Executive Branch, will be able to take their complaints to an office of fair employment practices. If they fail to resolve their...
After two years of tortuous negotiations and a marathon, 16-hour final session, the 12 members of the European Community last week agreed with the seven-nation European Free Trade Association to form the world's largest trade bloc by 1993. The new European Economic Area will extend from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, embrace 380 million consumers, and account for 43% of world trade...
EARLIER THIS MONTH, Congress passed a bill to extend unemployment benefits for those who were especially hard-hit by the recession. Bush vetoed it, and won a close battle to sustain the veto. The program was too expensive, he said, and unnecessary, because the economy had hit bottom and was rebounding. But despite his denials, the recession has been getting worse. Unemployment today is 6.8%, the highest rate since May, when Bush first began to promise that the United States was in recovery...
Even with such poetry, Owen does manage to maintain the frame of a practical how-to. His goals for the book extend far beyond the pleasures of entertainment. A fan of zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (which he read in college), Owen wants to "demystify technology" for all home owners. "There is a powerful feeling of tranquility that comes from knowing how one's house is put together," Owen writes. "My childhood would have been somewhat less anxiety-ridden had I realized...there was no way for pirates to crawl... from the laundry chute...
Developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb, DDI resembles AZT in that it interferes with replication of the AIDS virus. Whether it will extend the life of patients remains unknown, but it has been shown to boost levels of disease- fighting T cells. Last week's approval, granted with unusual speed, will enable doctors to prescribe the drug to those who cannot tolerate AZT -- about half of AIDS patients...