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...there must be a counter-weight to this immense power. The striker replacement bill would destroy the delicate balance, depriving businesses of their only defense against unreasonable union demands. Although those on strike lose wages, businesses would be hurt even more. Their business would grind to a halt, because, in many cases, it is nearly impossible to hire temporary replacements...
...poor but eager migrants have become the main targets of murderous racial attacks on foreigners and xenophobic political movements in a dozen countries. With reception facilities overburdened, unemployment rates climbing to a national average of 10% and voters shouting in protest, Western governments are calling a halt. From Sweden in the north to Greece in the south, the Continent echoes with the sound of doors slamming shut...
...five years since then, Mays and the Twiggs have been battling for Kimberly's affections. In a settlement in 1989, the Twiggs agreed not to seek custody, in exchange for visitation rights. But Mays put a halt to them after only five visits, saying they were causing too much emotional turmoil. The Twiggs resumed their fight for custody, but lost in state court. Undaunted, they are now suing for visitation rights...
...debate flared anew last week when two organizations -- the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the Foundation on Economic Trends -- filed suit to halt a National Institutes of Health study that would give HGH to 80 boys and girls. The youngsters' pituitary glands produce typical amounts of HGH, and the children are within the normal height range for their ages of nine to 15, but they are shorter than average. The study had been suspended a year ago after the two groups accused the agency of violating federal regulations governing research with healthy children, but was resumed recently following...
...Modena, Italy, last fall, police rounded up more than 100 women from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and points east. Allegedly lured as dancers by a self-described theatrical agent, they were then forced "to be nice to customers or else." The agent is now awaiting trial. Even war does not halt the traffic. In Kac, a cluster of rundown farmhouses in northern Serbia, dark-haired Valenka gyrates half nude at the local bar and beckons customers upstairs for one-on-one at $62 an hour. The 24-year-old emigrated from Donetsk, in Ukraine, where her meat-packer parents earned...