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HUCTW's contract called for structural salaryincreases of 16 percent over three years as wellas smaller merit and progression-based raises.Less expensive health care plans and an improvedpension system were also among the benefits hailedby workers...
...eight weeks, the U.N. Security Council approved an air blockade of the maverick state. Though Cuba dissented, Yemen, once a Saddam sympathizer, voted yea, making the tally 14 to 1. Since Iraq receives little goods by air, the ban has little practical value, but it does have symbolic merit as another turn of the screw...
Wood said yesterday that Williams' quote was intended only as a general statement about the Department's interests in following up on all complaints of discrimination. "We investigate every complaint if there is merit," Wood said. "If someone runs out tomorrow and says `I was discriminated against' we would investigate and check out the merits...
...addition to their mistreatment of Silber, the staff position ignores the most important issues in this campaign. Instead of addressing the state's most devastating economic downturn in years, the staff position is preoccupied with the environment, consumer issues and abortion rights--all of which merit attention, but which are nowhere near as pressing as the state's current fiscal crisis. A more thorough analysis of the candidates' plans to revive the sinking economy is conspicuously absent. Perhaps the inhabitants of the Ivory Tower have forgotten that thousands of people stand in unemployment lines while we attend classes...
Affirmative action substitutes merit for mercy and assumes that equal individual opportunity will produce equal group results. It is a paternalistic, insulting, omnipresent policy that makes any achievement by a minority questionable, at times laughable...