Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without risking their jobs. In fact, however, these advocates are proposing women-only benefits, like those routinely offered to working mothers in other industrialized countries. Says Christine Littleton, co-founder of CREW and an acting professor of law at UCLA: "Sometimes equal treatment is what is necessary for long-term equality. Sometimes...
...word welfare usually calls up images of broken families in hard-pressed city neighborhoods. But controversial provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985, the farm bill passed by Congress last December, have given new meaning to the term. Even as thousands of farmers struggle to make ends meet, some affluent growers will reap multimillion-dollar federal subsidies for this year's crops. These farmers, says Robert Thompson, Assistant Agriculture Secretary for Economics, "may get looked upon as the welfare queens...
...Iran. On the morning of Aug. 2, Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aqazadeh approached Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, his Saudi Arabian counterpart. The two men talked for about 90 minutes in Yamani's suite, which had a sweeping view of Lake Geneva. Since OPEC members were unwilling to make long-term promises to limit their oil production, Aqazadeh reasoned, Why not try an interim measure? He suggested a temporary return to the group's 1984 quota of some 16 million...
Renovations to modernize the Kirkland St. musuem would cost far more than the University is willing to spend, especially since renovations to the Fogg and the long-term financial health of the whole museum system would be somewhat jeopardized by such a project, said one high-ranking administrator who asked not to be identified by name...
...because LTV, as part of its bankruptcy strategy, had abruptly canceled benefits for 66,000 retired workers. On Thursday, Federal Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland ordered the company to pay the benefits for six more months. That ruling ended the six-day walkout and permitted LTV to reap a short-term bonus in extra orders from USX clients...