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...program relied on worker complaints to spur investigations. Also the DOL had no mechanism for verifying worker accusations because employers did not face penalties for not keeping accurate records. The newly proposed bill imposes a $10,000 fine for failure to keep good-records, making the detection of violations more likely. This proposal would more than double the enforcement staff, working up to a $30 million increase in the budgets of the DOL and National Labor Relations Board d(NLRB) specifically for cases involving the exploitation of undocumented workers...
...club. Also (I am sure Mr. Ippolito will be glad to know). I am not one of those "homos," whose very existence seems to send shudders down the spines of the macho-men of Pi Eta. And, as reassurance for Mr. Travaglini (whose misguided letter was the original spur for this one). I claim no association with RUS, the Undergraduate Council or the Crimson. Finally, it would perhaps be appropriate, since only those with the proper credentials seem allowed to speak about this affair, for me to say that I am not nor have I ever been a member...
...events could spur legislation more quickly than another big oil takeover. Flush with then" recent successes, Pickens and the Bass brothers might go after other companies. Arco, having been spurned in its bid for Gulf, may also start shopping. To be sure, there is not likely to be another combine of the size of the Gulf-Socal deal. But as long as the price of oil shares remains cheap compared with exploration costs, merger fever in the oil industry will be far from burned out. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Richard Woodbury/San Francisco and Adam Zagorin/New York
...sometimes more, prejudiced than whites. Anyone who spends his formative years being humiliated and ostracized on the basis of his ancestry (as Jackson was) almost inevitably will become severely race-conscious. The individual bitterness provoked by experiences with discrimination may or may not surface and may even spur constructive attempts to combat bigotry; but it will survive, nonetheless, within the heart...
...balance the budget at the same time grew out of his fascination with supply-side economic theory, a doctrine that puts great faith in the power of tax cuts to spur growth. Reagan's supply-side enthusiasts, who were concentrated in the Treasury Department under the leadership of Secretary Regan, realized that tax cuts might open up a big deficit temporarily, but they believed that a spurt of growth in the economy would make up for part of the shortfall: more income and profits would mean more taxes for the Treasury. Cuts in Government spending, they thought, could close...