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...launched a hiring ban on smokers in December 2005, the same month Sophie Blinham was fired just minutes into her new job at an English data communications firm after admitting she smoked. Von Schnurbein insists the Commission's decision is not "a green light for employers to discriminate," but Tom Jenkins of the European Trade Union Confederation disagrees. "This opens the possibility for all kinds of discriminations," he says, citing the obese and alcoholics. The Dublin Internet entrepreneur who placed the ad, Philip Tobin, was quoted as saying that smokers "stink." If you eat a pungent lunch, says Jenkins...
...course, any good real estate agent is service oriented, but there's a world of difference between offering general services and anticipating the needs of a specific demographic. "This age group has very different concerns from [those of] a 30-year-old home buyer," says Tom Stevens, president of the National Association of Realtors. "Going to a Realtor with an SRES designation is like going to a medical specialist...
...channel surf with the mujahedin?" JILL CARROLL, U.S. journalist and former hostage in Iraq, describing how strange it was during her 82-day abduction this year to watch Oprah and Tom and Jerry with her captors, four of whom were arrested last week...
DeLay on the Ballot The Texas G.O.P. needs a write-in Since courts have refused to take Tom DeLay's name off the November ballot, the Texas G.O.P. has until Aug. 29 to find a write-in candidate--and then get voters to remember how to spell...
...crime has had on them.Such statements are a way for victims to describe how they’ve been affected by a crime. The judge in a case can use that information to help in sentencing and determining restitution, according to Justice Department Public Information Officer Tom Carson.Prior to Smiley’s sentencing in federal court on Sept. 21, the probation office will compile and write a pre-sentencing report that will be submitted to the judge, Carson said.After federal sentencing, Smiley will then be sentenced in Connecticut state court on Sept. 22, according to The New York Times.Smiley...