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Also, PBHA recently bypassed the appropriate process for creating minimum safety standards, not consulting Dean Kidd and instead going directly to a University attorney for his approval and pressing for a quick response. Fortunately, our attorney consulted the University's insurance office, which found the proposed standards seriously wanting in several respects. The PBHA leadership has continued to attempt to have these standards approved as Association policy, in spite of their deficiencies. As PBHA operates in the University's name and the University's insurance covers PBHA, any policy of this nature must be approved by our Insurance Office, which...
Lewis said PBHA also bypassed Kidd in their effort to create minimum safety standards. He called PBHA's failure to consult Kidd "extremely problematic," because of concerns with insurance standards and the safety of people served by PBHA programs...
...road." The pair already have an unlikely record of cooperation: last summer, shortly after Lott succeeded Bob Dole as Senate majority leader, he surprised both his G.O.P. colleagues and the White House by skillfully brokering deals to pass bills that, with Clinton's signature, reformed welfare, increased the minimum wage and made health insurance more portable for workers changing jobs. Those accomplishments helped ensure the re-election of both the Democratic President and an even stronger Republican majority in the Senate. But this time around, something bigger is at stake. Lott's new strength and Clinton's desire...
...sound finance to mask their ideology. Latent behind the rhetoric of efficiency and opportunity that makes up the case for privatization lies an ideology of rugged individualism that is encapsulated by the free market. Social Security is a highly redistributive program that, in old age, seeks to ensure a minimum level of subsistence for all Americans. Privatization may be the solution for garbage collection and management of the Congressional beauty parlor, but it will ruin Social Security precisely because social security is one of those things that the market can not provide...
Formerly, to meet the minimum academic requirements, a student must have had at least one satisfactory letter grade and could not have had more than one failing grade. To have a "satisfactory academic record," a student was allowed to have at most one unsatisfactory grade and no failing grades...