Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bank and simply want the law's benefits for women extended to men. Says Joan Bertin, associate director of the A.C.L.U. women's group: "The question is, Should a woman with a pregnancy disability get her job back when other employees with disabilities get fired? You undermine your argument unless you say everyone is equally entitled to this benefit." The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case this fall...
...months ahead, Egypt's financial crisis, the worst in many years, may become increasingly difficult to brush aside. Unless Cairo can find a way to gain relief from payments coming due on its $35 billion foreign debt, it may be forced either to default on loans or to cut domestic spending so drastically as to risk provoking a political crisis. Since almost any new regime is likely to be more influenced by Islamic fundamentalists than Mubarak's has been, Washington has good reason to make sure that Egypt ultimately gets the aid it needs. Says one Western observer: "No matter...
...Lites may be down to its final few bites. Company President Jefferson McMahon, a former Arby's executive who was hired only last November to tighten up D'Lites' management, abruptly quit the top job last week. The chain acknowledged that it may soon have to seek bankruptcy protection unless it can arrange an infusion of new capital. D'Lites lost $18.7 million during fiscal 1986, after making a profit of $948,000 in the previous year...
...want to create the impression that his diplomatic initiative had been an American invention. In Jordan, Bush met with King Hussein, who earlier dismissed the Vice President's call for a Hussein-Peres meeting. Hussein had pointed out that Jordan's long-standing policy is to reject such negotiations unless held within the context of an international peace conference. Bush did not bring his film crew to Jordan, suggesting to some that he holds the potential Jordanian vote in the U.S. in low regard. Nonetheless, on arrival in Amman, Bush and his wife Barbara enjoyed a dinner with the King...
Outwardly unshaken by the failure of Howe's mission, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher intended to hold her lonely line against meaningful sanctions at a three-day meeting of leaders of six Commonwealth members (Australia, Canada, India, the Bahamas, Zambia and Zimbabwe). Arguing that sanctions will not work unless the industrial powers join in applying them, she hoped to buy time until at least mid-September, when foreign ministers of the European Community nations complete deliberations on the subject in Luxembourg. If Britain remains out of step on sanctions then, Thatcher's Cabinet seems likely to split sharply...