Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back pop as she tried to lift a package in August 1994 from the top shelf of her United Parcel Service truck in Atlanta. Six months earlier, the 85-lb. parcel wouldn't have been there: it was on the truck only because UPS had raised its weight limit on such delivery parcels from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. in February 1994. Dawson, 37, underwent surgery for a ruptured disk but has been disabled ever since. Today she blames the company for jacking up the weight limit beyond what workers had learned to handle with comfort. "I wouldn't have...
...weight-limit increase helped boost profits and productivity at UPS, known as Big Brown for its ubiquitous chocolate-colored delivery trucks. With 335,000 employees, UPS is the world's largest package-delivery service (1994 sales: $19.5 billion). It is also known as a hard-driving company with a worker injury rate about 25% higher than the industry average. The privately held Atlanta company enjoys another distinction: it is the No. 1 corporate giver to congressional election races. UPS poured $2.6 million into House and Senate campaigns in 1993 and 1994 and kicked in nearly $500,000 more...
...York Times two weeks ago, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has dispatched a memo to university presidents and Internet service providers about hate and bigotry on the World Wide Web. The Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group based in California, suggests that universities and providers, such as Netscape, Inc., limit access to certain web pages that preach anti-Semitism, racism and violence...
...last episode, you'll recall, there was a tremendous wringing of hands when Congress refused in mid-November to extend the official $4.9 trillion debt limit, a tactic designed to force the President to approve its budget. Yet markets remained unruffled, knowing that Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin had internal bookkeeping changes up his sleeve that could lower our "official" debt and let Uncle Sam keep paying the bills. What Rubin has done to date--mostly shifting civil service pension money to accounts that aren't constrained by the debt limit--should take the government through mid-February. Such short-term...
That's a difficult argument to win, since Rubin's actions so far have been authorized by a statute passed while Ronald Reagan was in office. Meanwhile, with the G.O.P. budget plan itself calling for the debt to rise toward $6 trillion over seven years, a renewed debt-limit showdown can't help looking hypocritical. The Administration won't say what happens next if the limit isn't raised soon. But there's more than $1 trillion in trust funds and plenty of gold in Fort Knox that might be temporarily "reclassified" if the G.O.P. won't budge...