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INDICATORS Reading The Fine Print Japan 's competition watchdog raided Microsoft's Tokyo offices on suspicion that it set unfair conditions when granting software licenses to Japanese computer makers. Microsoft denied the charge, but deleted the provision from future contracts.
Carens is also a member of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), but criticized the Union for not driving a tough enough bargain in negotiations with the University. He reiterated one of the NLC’s planks—a call for a contract provision that...
“I just hope there’ll be a provision for civil unions. That way, neither side gets exactly what it wants,” he said.
Congress put a Band-Aid on the problem by increasing AMT-exemption thresholds in 2001 and then again in 2003, but those higher limits are set to expire at the end of this year. The new Bush budget proposal would offer a reprieve--extending those higher thresholds and the provision...
The new Medicare law authorizes powerful private plans to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies and includes a provision prohibiting government interference with these negotiations. TIME didn't tell its readers about the negotiations and characterized the provision (which originated in a plan developed by President Clinton) as preventing patients from obtaining...