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...Chaos. "There is no money at all," said Mayor Schaefer, who has refused to consider higher pay boosts. "There is no city money, no state money and no federal money on the horizon." The plight of Baltimore, which has the lowest per capita income and highest property taxes in Maryland, is similar to that of many other major cities faced with increasingly rebellious public employees...
...least ten states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia have death as the maximum rape penalty...
...York is not the only state in which the cost of malpractice insurance is rising. Premiums in California climbed by more than 400% between 1968 and 1970 and are likely to go up again this year. Insurance rates in Maryland have recently increased by 46.9%, and may soar another 48% if the state's major malpractice insurer is granted its request for a hike. Even in such states as New Hampshire and South Carolina, where patients seem less prone to bring suit against their doctors, costs of coverage have recently moved upward...
Paul Spyros Sarbanes, 41, calls himself an "urban populist." After a single term in Maryland's House of Delegates, this liberal Democrat toppled 13-term Congressman George Fallen in 1970. A Judiciary Committee member, he was one of only ten Representatives named to a select committee that recently recommended a reshuffling of jurisdictions within the House committee structure The thoughtful son of a Greek-born restaurant owner, Sarbanes is a former Princeton basketball player, Rhodes scholar and Harvard law graduate...
...million to at least 36,000 nonmanagement employees. Last week, with federal investigators looking over their shoulders, Rutgers University officials revealed that $375,000 is being paid to women and minority-group faculty members who have been receiving lower salaries than white male colleagues. A Bethlehem Steel plant in Maryland is now facing a suit raising equal-pay questions, and a spokeswoman for the National Organization of Women says that other businesses likely to have the same problem are retail stores, banks, and textile and electronics manufacturers. If all that remedying does occur, it should begin to change the present...