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...children regularly, in violation of state laws. Government agencies should be enforcing these laws to prevent children from becoming future addicted smokers. Retailers should be harshly punished for selling to minors, demand proof of age and prohibit vending machine sales. But state governments are not making serious efforts to implement these changes because to do so would mean losing future tax revenue crucial to finance state programs. Even the nineteenth-century French ruler Napoleon III, who was urged to ban tobacco, once remarked, “This vice brings in 100 million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly...
...plan put unfair burdens on the Palestinians, rejected it. After the Netanya massacre, Arafat scrambled to give the impression that he was willing to enter a cease-fire, but no one believed him. Says a senior U.S. official: "I can't say that he's even agreed to implement the Zinni plan...
...that sense of victory served Arafat as a psychological platform to launch his peace initiative and recognition of Israel, it was the Oslo agreement and the peace process that followed that disillusioned the Palestinians and threw them into a new episode of confrontation. The reluctance of Israeli governments to implement promised withdrawals from Palestinian land, and then the catastrophic failure of the Camp David talks, prepared the fertile soil for a new breed of militants and suicide bombers...
...lower wages in 1994, United Airlines pilots and mechanics got more than half the company's stock. But life inside the cockpit and at loading ramps barely changed. By contrast, Southwest Airlines employees own only about 11% of the company's stock, but the company works to encourage and implement workers' suggestions, in part through town hall-style forums with top management. While there are other important differences between the carriers, workplace culture is a big reason United posted record losses last year while Southwest made a healthy profit--as it has for 29 years...
Touborg said the OHR has developed a plan of how to implement the parity wages and benefits and is now awaiting approval of the plan by Harvard’s 12 different schools...