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...national policy to provide maternity leave. But in recent years that has been slowly changing, state by state. Some form of pregnancy-leave law is on the books of eight states besides California: Connecticut, Hawaii, Kansas, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio and Washington. The decision is likely to spur battles on the controversial issue elsewhere...
...been similarly unwilling to flesh out any of the other nebulous proposals he will unveil in the State of the Union speech next week. During one Cabinet meeting in December, Secretary of Education William Bennett listened as bland proposals were presented and then, hoping to spur discussion about the next step in the Reagan revolution, pronounced the prospective agenda "boring, boring, boring." The President just listened politely, and nothing new emerged. Partly it is a matter of selective engagement: Reagan enjoyed meeting last November with a group of futurists who discussed their vision of the 21st century, but he does...
...empty beds. The national occupancy rate was only 63.7% during the first nine months of 1986, down from a traditional level of about 80%. One reason is the advance of medical technology, which has increased the number of procedures that can be performed on an outpatient basis. Another spur to health-care competition has been the dramatic efforts by insurance companies, employers and Government health-care programs, notably Medicare, to rein in runaway medical costs by encouraging shorter hospital stays. The Government, for example, now generally reimburses hospitals based on a flat rate for a given illness, rather than allowing...
Ironically, many supply siders, who favor tax cuts and easy monetary policy, believe that their old ally Johnson has been too timid in urging that the Fed spur the economy. Says Supply Sider John Albertine, vice chairman of Chicago- based Farley Industries: "The Fed has missed the boat. Real interest rates are still much too high." Agrees Paul Craig Roberts, a scholar at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The Reagan appointees are powerless in view of the Volcker aura...
Laura Barrett, speaking for the Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Campaign, another ad hoc coalition, said it is illegal in Massachusetts to allocate funds by ballot, and that the measure's requirements are meant to spur the DEQE to action. "We went to the ballot process because we have been going to the legislature for the past three years [without success]," she said...