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...estimated 80% of 1,118 major Japanese companies will not hire any women graduates this year, according to a survey by Nippon Recruit Center, a private research and publishing firm. The women they hire will be coming straight from high school. Moreover, once employed, women face discrimination in, or outright exclusion from, most training programs and are rarely in a position to receive such benefits as transportation, housing and family allowances, which are available to heads of households. Except in a few jobs like nursing, they are also excluded by law from working between...
When the U.S. military decided to exclude the press from Grenada, the White House was receptive. According to some sources, the inspiration was the British government's restriction, but not outright ban, of the British press during the Falklands war. There was little fear that the President and military would lose the battle for public opinion if the operation went smoothly. Says White House Communications Director David Gergen, who has tried to temper the Administration's antimedia sentiment: "Unfortunately, kicking the press is a sure-fire applause line with almost any audience...
...Princess Caroline of Monaco may be the only young woman left who patronizes a couturier, Marc Bohan of Dior, the way her mother did.) Walking through this exhibition, one is struck by Saint Laurent's fecundity, his ability to harness everything-nostalgia, whimsy, exotic venues, painting, novels, poems, outright homages to predecessors like Chanel-into inspiration for a dress...
...Milwaukee, for example, she worked on a series of investigative reports examining "the in-justices and outright collusion of the city's power structure that were 'dumping' the mentally ill into run-down boarding homes." Sometimes social workers would send these people, barefoot in bathrobes, from nursing homes or mental health centers, because of some economic mandate from the state bureaucracy to lower health costs...
...level goes so high that the inevitable "someone" reference flips us back with a shock: what we're watching is not real, it's just another fantasy. Both singers reach their peak in the climactic title number, "Marry Me a Little," which explores fear of commitment and emands from outright belting to the subtlest possible tone modulations--tenderness, anger, and fear...