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...passed the bill would have required companies with 50 or more employees to grant them up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave (with health insurance coverage) in the event of a family medical emergency or the birth of a child. Bush's criticism of this proposal was twofold. First, he expressed concern that more regulations would keep American business from competing well against foreign competitors. (He conveniently ignored the fact that most industrialized countries already have family-leave laws, which in some cases even mandate paid leaves...
...What they do is advise the government" Cowan said. These advisory ties create a twofold problem, he said...
Although more black women than white women in the study received late or no prenatal care, that discrepancy alone was not great enough to account completely for the twofold gap in mortality rates. Schoendorf points to several possible reasons. Among them: the cumulative effects of a lifetime of inadequate access to health care, and the chronic stress associated with being black in America. One piece of good news in the report: black and white infants of normal birth weight enjoyed identical chances for good health...
...they refuse to concede that the Great Society worked for the people it reached. The Black middle and upper-middle classes have grown more than twofold in the last two decades. The number of Black and Hispanic professionals has risen drastically...
...essentially twofold," hesaid, "The first is to help set the academic tenorof the House and the second is to both forward andrepresent to both college and the world outsideHarvard the interests of Eliot House students...