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Japanese and German banks and trading firms are saddled with more than their share of Iraqi debt. Japanese trading companies hold about $5 billion in unpaid Iraqi bills, German banks about $2 billion. The embargo also leaves 40 German companies stuck with $2 billion in debt on business deals that have been partly completed but not paid for. Some of those losses will be covered by Hermes Kreditversicherung AG, the German state export-insurance program, but as much as $1.2 billion in trade with Iraq and Kuwait is not insured. Large diversified conglomerates like Daimler-Benz, Mannesmann and Ferrostaal...
...long enjoyed. Sweden, for instance, provides parents 90% salary reimbursement for the first nine months after birth. But the battle in the U.S. for even limited family programs remains an uphill march: industry lobbied so hard against legislation that would have required most businesses to provide 12 weeks of unpaid parental leave that President Bush vetoed it last June...
...important subject for academic study precisely because it is so pervasive. The average American child watches six hours of television a day. Advertising billboards bombard us on every street corner. Our entire political system revolves around the ability of candidates to influence the electorate through advertising and unpaid media coverage...
Bell, Harvard's first tenured Black law professor, made national headlines in April by taking an unpaid leave of absence in protest of the Law School's refusal to tenure its first Black woman...
...have to share our library with some ungrateful guests. And if Harvard's noble officers continue to feel the need to play on our turf, they should at least play by the home rules. And pay by them too. With all of the overdue library fines that usually go unpaid, Lamont could probably afford some light pens...