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Suddenly, parental-leave legislation that House Democrats were afraid to schedule because it was sure to fail was put on the calendar. The bill, first introduced by Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder in 1986, would require employers of more than 50 people to allow men or women up to ten weeks of leave to care for a newborn, a seriously ill child or an ailing parent. When House Majority Whip Tony Coelho took a head count this week, he found so much new support among moderates that he has decided to schedule a vote as soon as possible...
...chasing his own world record in the 400-m ind. medley, and Biondi to be continuing his medal chase, in the 100-m butterfly. On the basketball court the U.S. takes on the 1987 Pan Am winner, Brazil, and its colorful colossus, Oscar Schmidt. In the water Terry Schroeder captains the U.S. against defending world and Olympics champ, Yugoslavia...
Students' obsession with career preparation is not merely a matter of too much greed or too little imagination. "I think it's because they're more worldly," explains Frederic Schroeder, dean of students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. "Students come to us now with a much wider range of experiences and a much better sense of the world through the media. It's natural that they should come with different expectations than students who came out of more sheltered environments 20 or 30 years...
...TERRY SCHROEDER, WATER POLO...
Kicking, scratching and dunking are part of the daily ordeal of water-polo players. At age 29, with a wife and a career to attend to, Terry Schroeder might have done without the punishment. But Schroeder, captain of the U.S. team for the second consecutive Olympics, is haunted by the silver medal he and the squad won in Los Angeles four years ago. Haunted by silver? Leading the top-ranked Yugoslavs by a score of 5-2 in the final game and needing an outright win, the U.S. team got caught in a riptide. The Americans gave up three goals...