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...SALARIES of women and men in managerial jobs were even further apart in 2000 than in 1995 in seven of the 10 industries that employ the most women in the U.S., according to a GAO study. In 1995 FEMALE MANAGERS in entertainment earned 83[cents] for every $1 earned by a male manager; by 2000 female managers in that industry earned only 62[cents]. In communications, women in management went from 86[cents] to 73[cents]. ONE THEORY to explain the widening wage gulf is that in the booming labor market of the late '90s, job applicants could aggressively negotiate...
...General Accounting Office (GAO), Congress’ investigative arm, has requested that Cheney release information that would allow the GAO to begin mapping out the relationship between members of the energy industry and the administration. The GAO is asking for lists of the individuals present at each meeting of Bush’s energy task force and, in addition, lists of the people with whom each task force member met, along with the date, subject and location of those meetings. With this information, the GAO will be able to scrutinize in greater detail the administration’s involvement with...
...determination to obtain those lists, even if it must sue the White House and the Vice President. Congress is constitutionally responsible for overseeing the executive’s activities, and a collapse of the magnitude of Enron’s is a clear justification for a GAO investigation...
...ensure that the president and vice president can receive “unvarnished advice.” He has said that industry executives will be less likely to come forward if the extent of their discussions with the administration may someday become public knowledge. However, the GAO is not asking for the vice president to reveal the contents of every conversation; he is not being asked to indicate who on the list of names was a whistle-blower. And if a precedent of disclosure prevents this and future administrations from receiving advice that should not be given in the first...
...GAO begs to differ, demanding details about the Vice President's meetings with Enron brass. The big question: Did Cheney respond to Enron requests for help by changing U.S. energy policy? And if so, was there anything wrong with that? If Cheney has his way, we may never know - White House officials are talking executive privilege and the Vice President isn't talking at all. Is this a case the White House can win? Or is the Bush administration going to get a very public, very damaging slap on the wrist...