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...with the implementation of Massachussets' stringent welfare work requirement and two-year time limit triggered by a 1996 federal welfare reform bill, there are more and more people looking for work...
...Court decided in a landmark case in 1986 that hostile working environments constitute sexual harassment. However, at the same time, as Mansnerus argues, the legal language for sexual harassment is vague and flexible and open to political vicissitudes. Judge Wright dismissed Jones' claim in part because of Wright's stringent definition of the offense of "outrage," which Jones claims she suffered. Wright argued that "outrage" is "emotional distress so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it." Had the definition been broader, perhaps Jones' experiences would have been sufficient to bring the case to court...
...standard, Mozambique, Eritrea, Mali and Ghana are countries in awful straits. Their statistics still show an abysmal record of poverty, illiteracy, early mortality. While all four have achieved a dose of national economic success, with higher growth rates, lower inflation and more stable currencies that flow from obedience to stringent International Monetary Fund reform programs, they have yet to see their growing wealth trickle down very far. For ordinary citizens, daily hardships are intense: few jobs, few schools, few hospitals, poor diets, rising prices, no money. For the majorities of these populations that are ill fed, ill clothed, illiterate...
...early May, the Faculty endorsed the underlying principle that the task force on the core curriculum expounded in its report-the need for more stringent non-concentration requirements for undergraduates. However, it voted to carry on consideration of a substantive "core program" within the framework of a five-area format that the Faculty Council proposed, rather than the Wilson committee's eight-area plan. Over the summer, two Faculty members will draw up an agenda for hammering out a detailed curriculum proposal in each of the five areas. But everyone involved in the core curriculum debate, especially Wilson...
Also impacted by Seed's announcement is the movement for more stringent governmental regulation of cloning research. Legislation against cloning looms in Washington, where lawmakers banned indefinitely the appropriation of any federal funds for research with human cloning as a final objective last year...