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...American-born, black children is Flensburg, a city north of Hamburg and an ocean's divide from U.S. soil. Had the Wilhelmis been Americans from another U.S. state, they could not have removed the children from Pennsylvania without complying first with the terms of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. That means a review of their paperwork in both Pennsylvania and their home state, a process that typically takes up to two weeks. Instead the Wilhelmis had only to spend a day obtaining passports for the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Babies for Export | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...reform." Clinton's plan, like the three major bills already proposed in Congress, has as its core a requirement that people work for their benefits, if not in the private sector, then in a government job. The bureaucracy's role would change from check writing to job training and placement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare Reform: The Vicious Cycle | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

...Pretty much across the board things have been pretty dismal for the last three years," says Margaret L. New house, assistant director of the Office of Career Services (OCS) for graduate student placement. "A new Ph.D. has to be pretty lucky to get a tenure-track position that they really want...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Ph. D.s Face Bleak Job Prospects | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...judge put the issue on the ballot, but rent control advocates promptly filed suit in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts against the state Attorney General, who certified the petition and then prepared a summary for placement on the state ballot...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Rent Control Issue Heats Up | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...astonished to discover that he's just the man the proprietor is looking for. Wayne (J.T. Walsh) needs somebody to bump off his wife. As it turns out, Wayne is just a little too eager to fill this vacancy, for he violates the most basic rule of personnel placement: always check a prospective employee's references...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Equal Opportunity Evil | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

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