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...monetary sense, neither employers nor their employees owe each other anything. If one wants to change the face of society, one cannot do so by mandating employer loyalty by fiat any more than mandating against employee theft and espionage have actually abolished these actions. What employers "owe'' is a matter of a person's perspective of what individuals owe one another: care and concern, or animalistic rivalry? TOM NADEAU Alhambra, California...
...last week he could claim that he's already won the contest that matters, to the extent that "others are stealing my ideas." Just when President Clinton and Republicans in Congress admit they are unable to cut the budget through negotiations, Forbes arrives and proposes to do it by fiat. Now, says Jack Kemp, who was only one of the many voices last week calling for a brand-new tax system, "the whole debate is how low to have the tax-rate system, how fair it should be." The issue reached critical mass on Wednesday, when Gramm unveiled...
...published a shocking internal memo from the Bronx office, dated Nov. 15, 1995, regarding the caseload. "Please encourage your workers to follow this simple mathematical equation," it read. "For every opening you should have two closings/transfers." But children are not numbers. And their suffering cannot be stopped by bureaucratic fiat. "The system is broken and needs to be fixed, but no one has the political will to do it," says Nayowith. "What possible good does it do to call for the death penalty of the mother, string up the judge and hang the caseworker? After that's all done...
...Harvard administration and The Crimson's editorial board have defined free speech by fiat with complete disregard for dialogue. If professorial control means no disagreements, then we do not believe our free speech is protected. Had we been asked to leave, we would have. As Harvard students during shopping period, it was our right to attend classes and comment on them. We did not at any point take over the podium or shout over professorial objections. The form our action took was dictated by t he wishes of Mansfield and Visiting Lecturer George F. Will, who have asked that academic...
...instance, some months after Yakutia passed its first constitution, Russia imposed a number of changes on the document. Says economist Logan: "Nobody is going to make investments looking 25 or 30 years into the future in a country where changes can be imposed at the constitutional level by fiat." Nevertheless, Russia is struggling to resolve these problems, and when it does, the real land rush will begin...