Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder many employers look with trepidation on the shortened workweek--though virtually nothing can stop it now. Following the passage of a preliminary law last June, 15,000 companies or sectors voluntarily negotiated 35-hr. accords with workers ahead of a year-end deadline. The second 35-hr. law, due to be voted on next week, gets specific on such matters as overtime, coffee breaks and the status of managers and minimum-wage employees. The latter must be paid 39 hrs.' salary for 35 hrs. of work--equivalent to an 11% raise--with the government making up the difference...
When he was arrested, Kaczynski was widely assumed to be insane. But he will not tolerate being called, as he puts it, "a nut," or "a lunatic" or "a sicko." He says he pleaded guilty last year only to stop his lawyers from arguing he was a paranoid schizophrenic, as had been the diagnosis by court-appointed psychiatrists...
...fund growing for future retirees. If a budget surplus actually does materialize, worthwhile goals like health care for the uninsured or--yes--even a tax cut ought to come before pouring more money into the trust fund. Where is the courageous politician who will say it's time to stop Social Security from raiding the government...
...being removed. But with Internet and regional Bell companies creeping into the picture, long-distance rates--now about as low as they've ever been--are unlikely to spurt higher. In the long run, the MCI WorldCom-Sprint combination may push us a little faster to telecom nirvana: one-stop shopping for local, long distance and wireless service; Internet access; and cable TV. Imagine all those connections in one jack (plus wireless) and a single bill based on how much data flows through the electronic spigot. We're headed there. But until that world emerges several years from...
...name Greenpeace immediately conjures up images of scruffy activists blocking railroad tracks to stop nuclear-waste shipments or challenging whaling ships in rubber rafts. So it's surprising to find in the ranks of this radical green group a button-down business tycoon named Malcolm Walker, who heads Iceland, a British retail food chain with 760 stores and annual revenues of $2.7 billion. But Walker, 53, whose personal fortune of $40 million puts him on the British "Rich List" compiled by the Sunday Times of London, sees nothing incongruous about his consorting with environmental militants. "I wear a suit...