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...years, American society has been plagued by go-getter husbands who pursue wealth for the assumed good of the family while ignoring their childrens' emotional needs. But to imply that the House bill is the best way in which to institute parental leave and change social attitudes is presumptuous. Such legislation leaves businesses, especially smaller ones, little room for maneuvering...
...Eastern city of Cottbus that the two states would be joined in a currency union "as fast as possible." He pledged that individual East German savings accounts would be redeemed one for one in deutsche marks (the black market rate is 6 to 1) -- a guaranteed vote getter in the East, but one that will cost West Germans an estimated $100 billion...
...high-stakes marriage between television and sports. It did not take long for these two great American institutions to meet and tie the knot. But only recently did they fully realize how much they mean to each other. For the networks, sports programming is a surefire audience getter in an era of fractionalizing viewership. For sports, TV is the irresistible avenue to mass-audience popularity -- and almost unimaginable riches...
...biggest vote getter, as expected, was the South West African People's Organization, or SWAPO, the Marxist-led group that conducted a 23-year guerrilla war for independence. But SWAPO won only 57% of the vote and 41 seats, far short of the 85% prediction by Sam Nujoma, 60, the group's leader, or of the 67% that would have let SWAPO shape the constitution...
...attempts of Walsh and Today's Independents to make the ballot initiative the central campaign issue may have ended up hurting the referendum's quiet supporters. Sullivan, for years the city's top vote-getter, ran a distant third in this year's campaign...