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France's mighty unions are ranging themselves against any changes in the labor codes, while Balladur has broached modest alterations: allowing firms the flexibility to use extra employees at busy times and fewer off-peak and letting businesses hire young workers at less than the minimum wage if they funnel the savings into training. The government is also considering legislation to encourage companies to adopt a four-day week, which it hopes would put more people back on the payroll. Citizens are being urged to set up their own personal retirement accounts, easing the burden on employers...
...these are just the minimum requirements. Running NT on such configurations is not unlike putting a Volkswagen Beetle engine inside a Ferrari: sure you can drive, but it's more like crawling than racing...
...barest minimum, the results last week will fail to help Clinton win congressional support not only for NAFTA but for his health-care reform bill as well. Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut, a deputy Democratic whip in the House, fears that Clinton's health-care bill will become more vulnerable to attack -- wrongly, in her view -- as too expensive and too likely to promote a growth of government bureaucracy. On state and local levels at least, charges of excessive spending and too much bureaucracy have been proving lethal...
Perot's distrust of Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's promise to increase wages in Mexico also betrays his belief in Mexican corruption. He regularly points out that Mexican workers earn one-seventh what U.S. laborers make. But he dismisses President Salinas' commitment to raise the minimum wage as Mexican productivity increases, suggesting that Salinas is corrupt and untrustworthy...
...doctor to withhold treatment. The commission was disbanded in 1983. Last week's debate made it likely that some kind of national board will be established during President Clinton's watch. It had better be done quickly. Hall told TIME that his technique could produce human clones within "a minimum of a couple of years...