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...explains the reason for our shackled position than President Bush's veto of the parental leave bill last week. Arguing that it was not his place to force American businesses to do anything they did not want to do, the President refused to sign a bill that guaranteed workers unpaid time off for births, adoptions, or medical emergencies involving family members...
...tournaments won. He already holds records for prize money won in a season, $2,334,367, and in a career, $16,282,293. But the only goal he speaks of with affection is to win Wimbledon for the first time. To achieve that, he has invested ten weeks in unpaid practice on grass courts on three continents. He wants to become the fifth man ever, and the first in more than two decades, to complete a career Grand Slam. (Wimbledon and the Australian, French and U.S. Opens acquired this collective honorific when Don Budge won them all in 1938; they...
SOMETIME this week, President Bush will be formally presented with the Congress-approved Family and Medical Leave Act. The President has already declared that he will veto this bill, which provides employees of large companies an assurance of three months of unpaid leave for childbirth, adoption or serious illness...
...reason behind the Kremlin's hustle for dollars is that the Soviet Union has drawn its hard-currency reserves so low that many bills for imported goods remain unpaid, which is quickly eroding the country's credit rating. "We're now advising firms to do business here only if they have a letter of credit or some other cast-iron guarantee of payment beforehand," said the commercial attache of a Western embassy in Moscow. No mention of whether there is a charge for that letter of credit...
...foresight to adapt the American economy to the reality of the two-career family. Last week, the House of Representatives approved legislation that would guarantee 12 weeks of paternity or maternity leave each year to workers in firms with 50 or more employees. Because the leave would be unpaid--with only health insurance benefits continued--the legislation would cost just $5.30 a year per employee, according to a Congressional study...