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...beleaguered UN and funding levels for U.S. foreign policy. "The UN is important and good for the United States," Albright said earlier this week, stressing that standing up for the nation's interests worldwide was not possible "on the cheap." For his part, Helms maintains that the U.S. should quit the UN if it is not streamlined. He likes Albright's tough stance toward rogue leaders like Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro and her support for NATO's eastward expansion. That issue will be up for discussion in July when Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary are expected to start...
...hired; plus $50 to the employee and new worker after 90 days; plus another $50 to the newcomer after six months and yet another after a year. But it's still hard to hold help in a region where the boom in tourism and riverboat gambling lets workers quit jobs on Friday and find new ones the next week...
Over the years they would have ferocious fights, and Allen would, after a Hodgkin's disease scare, quit the company and become estranged. But Gates worked hard to repair the relationship and eventually lured Allen, who is now one of the country's biggest high-tech venture-capital investors (and owner of the Portland Trail Blazers), back onto the Microsoft board. "We like to talk about how the fantasies we had as kids actually came true," Gates says. Now, facing their old classroom building at Lakeside is the modern brick Allen/Gates Science Center. (Gates lost the coin toss...
...Rich Kotite of the Jets, Dan Reeves of the Giants, Rich Brooks of St. Louis and June Jones of Atlanta as coaches who have lost their jobs since last Friday. Add in Dave Shula, who was fired in October after going 1-6 with Cincinnati, and Jim Mora, who quit the same week in New Orleans, and seven coaches who started the season are now out. Bruce Coslet replaced Shula, went 7-2 and signed a new four-year deal, but the Saints are looking for a new coach after Rick Venturi, the professional interim coach, went...
...forces connect us all. For instance, if the high school students who now work at fast-food outlets in order to get money for Batman comics and albums by Snoop Doggy Dogg no longer feel the need to buy Batman comics and albums by Snoop Doggy Dogg, they might quit their jobs and leave the rest of us waiting hours for our hamburgers. We might get tired of waiting and eat elsewhere, changing our fat intake in a way that endangers the entire diet industry. That's how free-market capitalism works...