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Women who do work have long been paid less and received fewer benefits, often on the excuse that they might become pregnant. Glenna Lehtonen, now a housewife with two babies in East Templeton, Mass., was one of the three women whose successful suit against Massachusetts Electric established that under the state ERA, pregnancy is just another biological contingency that must be included in routine disability plans. So far, Mrs. Lehtonen's cash award for several pregnancy-related illnesses has been only $97. The court decision in her case, however, grants rights that the U.S. Supreme Court, without...
...worked for a collateral-monitoring firm that checked on the supply of peanuts held in the Carter warehouse. The peanuts served as collateral for the bank loans. As the peanuts were shipped out of the warehouse, Hayes was supposed to make sure that fixed portions of the loan were paid back to N.B.G...
There are even more tangible benefits for America. For every $1 that the U.S. contributes to international financial institutions that give aid, the recipients spend $2 to buy goods and services in the U.S. For every $1 paid by the U.S. into the World Bank alone, $9.50 flows into the nation's economy in the form of procurement contracts, operations expenditures and interest payments to investors in the bank's bonds...
DIED. Nelson Morgan Davis, 72, eccentric Canadian businessman; of drowning; in Phoenix. A native Ohioan who moved to Toronto in 1929, Davis amassed a fortune estimated at $100 million with a string of manufacturing and transport companies. He once paid $10,000 to have a meteorite that landed near Cleveland crushed and sent to Toronto to cover his driveway with its dust-free gravel and keep visitors from tracking dirt into his living room...
...17th place ranking on the World Best Time list this summer, must be considered the strongest candidate to score. The freshman from Kansas literally cruised to victory at the Easterns in the 200-yd. backstroke and later admitted that he "probably could have gone faster if I'd have paid less attention to the other guys in the race and worried more about what I was doing...