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Such studies have given some economists reason to switch sides in the wage debate. "The negative effects are not significant at the level at which the minimum wage is being raised," contends Joseph Stiglitz, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, who argued against the minimum wage in a textbook he wrote in 1993. Last October about 100 other economists who share his view, including three Nobel laureates, announced their support for President Clinton's plan to raise the wage 90'--from $4.25 to $5.15--over 15 months...
...Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the news was electrifying. The New York Democrat raced to the telephone and called Joseph Stiglitz, head of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. "Get the President to call Bob Dole--fast!" he urged. Moynihan, who was shopping around a dramatic proposal, had just witnessed a rare moment in Washington--the possibility of bipartisan, let's-jump-off-together risk taking. Senate majority leader Dole had mumbled something positive about the idea; if the White House, too, gave it a nod, the seemingly intractable deadlock over how best to balance the federal budget could...
...along with Peres to welcome Shcharansky at Ben Gurion Airport were a number of Cabinet ministers and politicians, together with the country's two Chief Rabbis. As the plane came to a halt and the door opened, a tall man carrying a shopping bag stepped inside. It was Mikhail Stiglitz, Avital's brother, who is an Israeli army officer. The pilot had radioed ahead that Shcharansky, who was released from the labor camp in a threadbare suit of clothes, badly needed a pair of pants and a belt to hold them up. While the crowd waited, Shcharansky changed into...
...Union. As a genuine human- rights movement coalesced, Shcharansky was fired up by its libertarian ideals and began working with groups that were pressing for large-scale Jewish immigration to Israel. At the same time, he fell in love with a vividly beautiful girl in his Hebrew class, Natalya Stiglitz. After applying for visas to Israel, they married in a religious ceremony in 1974. Shcharansky's bride, who had taken the Hebrew name of Avital, had to leave the Soviet Union the next day, but he was denied permission to emigrate...
...study computer programming at the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute. When he applied for a visa to go to Israel, he was refused on the ground that he had been privy to state secrets while working for an oil and gas company that promptly fired him. His fiancee Natalya Stiglitz, who had applied to leave with him, received her visa. They decided to marry before she left for Israel to wait for him. Natalya, who has since adopted a Hebrew name, Avital, is still waiting...