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...from higher wages would be wiped out by job cutbacks among businesses subject to the living-wage laws. Last month a study of 36 cities with living-wage laws--conducted by David Neumark, a Michigan State University economics professor and an early skeptic of such laws--found that the slight job losses caused by the higher wages are more than offset by the decrease in poverty among working families. "The impact on businesses and governments is very small," says Robert Pollin, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "If there were any evidence otherwise, it would have...
...With her slight Boston accent, Cannon’s voice is one of the few able to directly influence decision-makers as she divides her time between organizational meetings and private discussions with concerned patients...
After Kirby, Faust and Ellison, the field remains wide open, with a slight emphasis being placed on the humanities to provide intellectual balance among the University’s top administrators...
...Winners BEN KINGSLEY British actor has Oscar nomination, gets knighthood. Of course, we will always know him as Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back DAVID HASSELHOFF Baywatcher's early series, Knight Rider, set to become a movie. Slight change: talking car Kitt will be amphibious and stuffed into a red thong TOM PETTY Heartbreaker inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Whenever enshrinements of geriatric rockers are announced, we think: who cares? Losers TOMMY SUHARTO Former strongman's son goes on trial in Indonesia for murdering a judge. One can only pity the jurist who gets to hear this...
...bedroom. One night, in November of 1983, after Doe had come to the office for a prayer session, Doe says O'Connell concluded it by giving him a bear hug - and grabbing his crotch. "I was shocked," says Doe, sobbing in an interview with TIME; but given how slight in both stature and experience he was, "it was overwhelming," and difficult to resist...