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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These criticisms cut straight to the first definition of the value of labor. Here changes should be made, immediately. The workfare workers must be assured that the hours they spend at work be safe and secure. We owe this minimum standard to every worker as a human being, not as an employee...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Is Workfare Working? | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

...corner and begin a shouting, thumping game. The army flashed the word to President Alberto Fujimori, who was across town at a divorce hearing with his estranged wife Susana. He instantly gave the order to attack. "We knew," he said later, "that it was the moment of minimum risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW THEY DID IT | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Formal incentive plans, the most fiscally aggressive of all legal plans, are block bonus payments--often a multiple of a professor's salary--dispersed at retirement. There is a minimum eligibility age, and the bonus decreases as the faculty member ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glossary | 5/2/1997 | See Source »

...calls the New Labour Party, reversing the party's long-held opposition to privatization and promising a less confrontational approach to business. He's also pledged not to raise income taxes for the next five years. Although he?s been sketchy on the details, he has promised a new minimum wage, health care reform, and referenda on the governance of Scotland and Wales. "Today, enough of talking," Blair said in victory celebrations on Friday. "It is time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morning In Britain | 5/2/1997 | See Source »

...corporate ethical standards are thrown overboard in many airlines. The industry operates with the concept of "an acceptable level of accidents,'' typical cost-vs.-benefit thinking. Technical maintenance and pilot training are not only important safety items, they are also very expensive. There is a big difference between the minimum standards employed and the highest standards reasonably achievable. When the FAA watchdogs are not watching, guess which the public is offered? KNUT ANFINDSEN, Retired Flight Captain Stabekk, Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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