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Another threat to this "healthy mix," according to Knowles, is the increased presence of older Faculty members following the 1993 repeal of the mandatory retirement age of 70. In the natural sciences, he wrote, 58 percent of those professors past the age of 70 have chosen to stay...
Regardless of where one stands on the question of rights, restoring ex-offenders' votes will have few practical disadvantages. Most opposition to such a repeal stems from an irrational fear that once given access to the ballot box, ex-offenders will oppose all criminal laws and vote "the wrong way." Even more irrational is the fear that this disenfranchised 2 percent of the population will overpower the political will of the more trustworthy 98 percent. Although the effect of these laws on the voting power of minorities may be significant, as a whole their repeal would do little to sway...
...final ballot initiative has received the most publicity. A "Yes" vote on Question 4 would continue a 1997 law aimed at restructuring the state's electric utility industry. A "No" vote would repeal...
Alexander said his plan would effectively repeal the Bush and Clinton tax increases of 1991 and 1993. The tax cuts would be funded by the federal budget surplus...
Perhaps, but Russ Briggs feels no contempt. Briggs watched first one and then another son die during childbirth unattended by doctors or trained nurses; he left the Followers in 1981, after deciding to seek medical help for a back injury. Briggs supports the Oregon exemption-repeal drive, but despite being shunned by his former community, he bears no discernible rancor. "They're still believing in a faith, so there's no blame for them," he says. "Their children died, and they allowed it to happen because of a belief that they still have. That takes away the blame...