Word: ge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas Stephen Foley's succession to the chair of the Agriculture Committee represented a particular forking in the pathway of his career. As a protége of Senator Henry Jackson, and a popular Washington Congressman, he might have been tempted to run for the Senate if Jackson resigned his seat to campaign for the presidency. Not now: the revolution in the House against the seniority system has handed him, at age 45, an opportunity to block proposed rises in the cost of food stamps and to urge increased production of milk and cotton while keeping a floor under...
...told Lebensborn directors that he wanted "racially acceptable" children in occupied lands brought to the Fatherland to be raised as Germans. "How can we be so cruel as to take a child from its mother?" he asked piously, then answered: "How much more cruel to leave a potential ge nius with our natural enemies...
...opposing P.L.O. factions at least agree on two points. They will not send a delegation to the peace talks in Ge neva unless United Nations Resolution 242 is amended; this resolution, which has been considered the keystone to peace efforts hi the Middle East since 1967, refers to the Palestinians merely as a "refugee problem." Said the P.L.O.'s Gamal Sourani last week: "The world must understand that ours is not a refugee problem. It is a national and political problem...
...murmur. The pregnant employee, however, generally gets no money for time taken as maternity leave. In a potentially far-reaching decision, Federal Judge Robert Merhige has found General Electric Co. guilty of sex discrimination in denying such benefits to pregnant workers. Ruling on a suit filed in 1972 by GE women, the judge dismissed the company's argument that pregnancy is incurred "voluntarily." Said he: "This standard is not applied in informal sports injuries, most of which could also be avoided by appropriate preparation and circumspect precaution...
...company plans to appeal the verdict; the final outcome is expected to influence similar suits. Moreover, collective bargaining agreements made by other companies in the past two years contain disability-pay clauses contingent on the outcome of the GE decision. If it should favor women, group insurance rates for employers nationwide would be increased considerably...