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...during the regular season. They would include tests for alcohol as well as drugs. A first positive test for most substances would lead to 30 days of counseling. During that time, a player would receive only half his salary. A second positive test would result in a 30-day unpaid suspension. A third fumble, and the player would be banned from the league...
...March, Friedan joined a coalition that supported a 1978 California law requiring employers to grant as much as four months of unpaid leave to women who are disabled by pregnancy or childbirth. The law may sound innocuous, but it is a red flag to the many feminists and civil libertarians who say that singling out women for special benefits is discriminatory and dangerous. For this reason, NOW and the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union are in effect supporting a legal challenge to the California law brought by a Los Angeles bank. Friedan says...
...ankle; Manes eventually admitted that the wounds were self-inflicted. Soon after, Manes' associate, Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former official in the city's parking- violations bureau, was accused of extorting $410,000 in cash, trips and theater seats from agencies that had been granted plump city contracts to collect unpaid parking-ticket fines. Queens Attorney Michael Dowd, a collection-agency owner, is reported to have told federal prosecutors that it was Manes who ordered him to pay bribes to Lindenauer to safeguard a lucrative city contract that had netted his firm some $2 million...
...hours on end, the small army with ice picks chipped away, trying to undo the winter's work in Moscow. Thousands of men and women, ordered to turn out for subbotnik, a Saturday of so-called voluntary unpaid labor, cleared streets and sidewalks of slippery patches. At the same time, tons of special food consignments were flooding into the city for proud display in store windows. Convoys of black limousines snaked through the streets or lolled at curbside. And everywhere throughout the country, from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad, red banners and billboards appeared bearing the Roman numerals XXVII...
...amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the explotation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries. Yet a price can be placed on unpaid wages," said Dr. King. The check is in the mail. The check will bounce anyway. Reagan has engineered an apartheid recovery, an economic upswing with "whites only" posted on the opening doors of opportunity...