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...mandatory numerical goals argue that they violate the civil rights of people who lose jobs or promotions in quota systems. "Our concept of affirmative action," says Mark Schultz, an official of the national Chamber of Commerce, "has always included the belief that the road to equal employment should not pave the way for discrimination against others." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes insisted last week that the draft, which is scheduled for discussion at a future working group of the Cabinet, was "in the early stages." He added, "It certainly has not been presented to the President. Therefore...
...long as the doctors are on the system. You can also download vital information onto a smart card to carry with you. The software is free; Medem charges doctors who get the benefit of the record keeping. Linked to insurers, these so-called personal- health-record systems could also pave the way for "mouse calls," arrangements by which doctors can consult patients over the Net for a fee. "It's so much better than our main competition," says Medem CEO Ed Fotsch, referring to the data-collection device still used by the vast majority of doctors: the clipboard...
That was the case for Kristen Cole, a publicist in Northampton, Mass., who grew up watching her mother diet. Cake was pronounced "decadent." Cole, 33, believes such behavior helped pave the way for her struggles with anorexia and bulimia, which began...
...settlement in the Middle East received some encouragement last week when Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, finally came up with a list of Palestinians acceptable to the P.L.O. who could serve on a joint Jordanian-Palestinian team. The group would meet first with U.S. diplomats to pave the way for direct negotiations with Israel. Although Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres has said he would welcome direct negotiations with a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, he is not prepared to talk with Palestinians who have links to the P.L.O. Hussein sent the list to the State Department, which then showed...
...spectrum, I ruled out bombing the dikes and the nuclear option. I rejected the bombing of the dikes, which would have drowned 1 million people, for the same reason that I rejected the nuclear option. Because the targets presented were not military targets. Nobody was exactly saying, 'Pave 'em over!' the way our friend in the Air Force, [General Curtis] LeMay, would have suggested. But I didn't see any targets in North Viet Nam that could not have been as well handled by conventional weapons...