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...rising employment. The idea is that Dole would urge corporations to make increased use of such arrangements as flextime (greater freedom for workers to arrange different schedules day to day), to give workers more compensatory time for long hours and to provide more part-time work. All are spread-the-work schemes that might offer alternatives to the frequent pattern of heavy layoffs, exhausting overtime for the workers still on the job and an increasing reliance on temporary workers...
...Gardners aren't money managers, but they are investors, and they use the power of online communication to spread their insights. They began investing in stocks at age 18, started an investment newsletter in 1993, and now, at the ripe old ages of 28 (Tom) and 30 (David), direct the Fool's daily operations from a small office in Alexandria, Virginia. The Fool's mission is to take some of the mystery out of the game by offering basic advice outside the Wall Street loop. The real action is on the Motley Fool electronic bulletin boards, where plugged-in investors...
Public-health officials had already come to the same conclusion. A number of epidemiological studies have shown that anal sex was the principal means by which HIV spread through the homosexual community in the 1970s and '80s. More recently, however, as more and more gay men adopted "safer" sex techniques, reports began surfacing of people who had become infected with HIV even though they had engaged in oral sex only. Erring on the side of caution, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta added unprotected oral sex to the list of unsafe sex practices several years...
...Founding Fathers, including George Washington, were dedicated Freemasons. Present-day Masonic organizations exist in all 50 states and continue to be in the mainstream of all that is good about America. The unseemly use of despotic power by a powerful leader of the Roman Catholic Church can only spread seeds of disharmony and divisiveness among us all, to the detriment of our tradition of religious tolerance. LOUIS CURTH Lake Placid, New York
After five years as president, Rudenstine seems to have become used to talking about one thing--Harvard. Those who work with the president say his greatest talents lie in his ability to spread his enthusiasm about Harvard to anyone willing to listen: donors, prospective faculty, administrators or lawmakers...