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...benefits for 50,000 new police officers by the year 2000, with local funds providing the remaining 25%. Moreover, $7 of every $10 in the bill goes toward law enforcement and prison construction. As for the release of drug dealers, judges would be required to review the mandatory minimum sentences and free less egregious criminals -- probably 400 at most -- to make room for truly violent offenders...
...revenues and are growing. Small wonder that the players' response, enunciated by union negotiator Don Fehr, was in effect "Death before dishonor -- a salary cap never!" The union's own counterproposal was an unimaginative enhancement of the status quo: increasing player bargaining rights across the board and upping the minimum salary from $109,000 to more than...
...here is baseball's bizarre system of salary arbitration, which is designed to protect players with three to six years of major league service. (Veterans can negotiate their own contracts as free agents, while young players must accept what their team pays them as long as it meets the minimum salary.) A baseball arbitrator must choose between the team's offer and the player's demand; he is not allowed to split the difference. What this has meant in practice over the years is that each time a spendthrift owner like George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees pays...
That skill will be crucial if a Dante-like robot is sent to another world. On Mars, for example, says Lavery, contact would probably be limited to once a < day, and even then the enormous distances would result in a minimum 10-minute time lag in communications. Dante II is not quite smart enough for full autonomy, but considering that it took less than a year to design and build, it is remarkably close to self-sufficient. Says Lavery: "The consensus was, if we had another four or five months, we would have had that ability...
Meanwhile, jobs are scarce, low paying and seasonal. For most of the year, | hundreds of families subsist on welfare: a single mother with one child gets $123 a month, a family of five, $370. For many the only available work is backbreaking minimum-wage jobs in the nearby cotton fields. Some older men, like John Henry Jackson, don't seem to do much but stand around drinking and swapping stories about the old days, when they worked on the farm and "followed some funky-ass mules all day long, smelled just like 'em and didn't get no money...