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...answer is cost. In the West Virginia drug-testing case, which is currently working its way through the federal court system, Judge Joseph Goodwin of the U.S. District Court noted that it costs about $44 a pop to do urine tests, which would cost the West Virginia school district in question about $37,000 a year. (Here's a PDF of Goodwin's preliminary injunction against drug-testing.) That same $37,000 could easily pay for a full-time teacher, meaning that drug-testing would have to be sufficiently valuable to displace an entire teaching position...
...Gregg could be an excellent Secretary of Commerce. He understands the problems business faces and the dangers that further tax increases and regulation mean for business and the nation. He would no doubt have to speak loudly if he wants his voice heard in an Obama Cabinet." -Joseph McQuaid, publisher of the New Hampshire Union-Leader, in an editorial published...
Former Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye—who has been offered the position of U.S. ambassador to Japan—recalled that Power played an instrumental role in building the school’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, which she founded...
...maneuvers from a source very close to home. In 1978, the bill that eventually created Maryland's death penalty was held up for a time by the same senate committee before eventually being forced to a vote. Its chairman back then was a future state attorney general named J. Joseph Curran, a longtime opponent of capital punishment. These days he also happens to be the governor's father...
Courageous and meaningful. "Our self-esteem in this Western culture is wrapped up in our work, and when someone lays you off, it's like they pulled the rug out from under your life," says Lynn Joseph, a psychologist and author of The Job-Loss Recovery Guide. The offer of understanding, to talk or to listen or to go out to lunch, can be deeply important to someone "whose self-image has been blown," says Joseph...