Word: unpaid
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Ohio Senator John Glenn, the early favorite, has not held up well under scrutiny. With an uninspiring Senate record, $2.4 million in unpaid 1984 campaign debts and less charisma than Dukakis, his appeal to the risk-averse Dukakis may be simply that the bland ex-astronaut could not hurt him, and he could help him win Ohio. Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton emerged as a foreign policy heavyweight and Mr. Integrity during the Iran-contra hearings. A lively presence Hamilton has never been, and he may not even be able to deliver his traditionally Republican home state...
...House- Senate conference committee. The White House prefers the sterner Senate version. To avoid a potential presidential veto, a last-minute amendment was added to the Senate bill that requires one adult in two-parent welfare families to devote at least 16 hours a week to "workfare," or unpaid community work projects. The Senate and the Administration have already struck a compromise whereby 22% of those receiving benefits must have jobs or be enrolled in education or training programs by 1994. Says Moynihan: "If it works by the turn of the century, we will have a different social landscape...
Internationally famous architect LeCorbusier built the center. And center affiliate Michael A. Callahan left it--taking an unpaid leave of absence to protest the failure to repair the rails...
...between the jobs, paid and unpaid, Rodriguez has found time for academics. "I feel now that it hasn't been too bad," Rodriguez says. "If I get back a grade and it's only a B, I can't be upset because I have done a lot of things...
Still reeling from the oil bust, financially strapped Texas cities are tapping revenue from a lucrative but neglected source: unpaid traffic tickets. Houston may reap more than $1 million this year by using the "Denver Boot," a device that immobilizes cars whose owners have three or more delinquent tickets. In Dallas the payment of nearly 140,000 fines could bring $18 million to its coffers, and a telecomputer is dunning scofflaws at a rate of 150 calls an hour...