Word: hire
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...billion in disability benefits each year to about 100,000 AIDS patients. But newly revived patients are now thinking about giving up disability and returning to work. Before they can do that, there are questions. Federal disabilities law bars discrimination against people with AIDS, but how many employers will hire an applicant with an expensive health problem? And if the benefits of protease inhibitors turn out to be short-lived, how easy will it be for people with AIDS to resume disability...
...Applebaum, in fact, who has put his finger on the case's underlying class issue. Perhaps unaware that the service economy constitutes 75% of the country's gross domestic product, many folks beyond big cities and high-income brackets consider it a bit excessive for the wealthy to hire people to do their shopping for them, let alone their pilfering. Thus, in addition to denying any wrongdoing, Applebaum ventured, "I would hope the fact they may be upper middle class is not something they will be punished for or made an example...
...racial terms [DIVIDING LINE, Nov. 25], and California has voted to end affirmative action. A new approach will have to be developed to end job discrimination and promote equal opportunity. I suggest that the victims of racism and sexism vote with their dollars. Those companies that do not hire and promote minorities and women at all job levels in a way that reflects their percentage of the population should be boycotted. Those companies that do not use the services and products of minorities and women should be boycotted. The American people can then decide whether or not to buy that...
...first high schools in Illinois to face up to the last teenage drug explosion, in 1981. "We made a decision then to go public and say we have a problem," says Jon White, assistant principal for student services. When school officials decided in 1985 to go outside to hire a full-time person to deal with substance abuse, they opted not for an enforcer or an educator but for Mary Dailey, a social worker from an adolescent treatment center...
...Trier in recent memory. When a kid does get caught in the prosperous communities of the North Shore, police and prosecutors frequently come up against formidable legal talent. "The first reaction of any parent is protection," says John Fay, juvenile officer for the Glencoe police department. "They hire the best because they can afford it. And let's face it, we've got judges who live in this area. They'll explore every avenue before sending a suburban kid to [Cook County Jail at] 26th and California...