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Hazens Food Shop closed in late January when three civil suits filed against shop owner Douglas W. Hayward and Hazens Food Shop, Inc. were pending in Middlesex Superior Court. The cases, still unresolved, seek payment for unpaid bills totalling...
Some deacons complain that parish priests see them as "unpaid janitors." Some priests, for their part, resent the fact that a few deacons wear the Roman collar, a practice that local diaconate program directors would like to stop. More important, there is increasing pressure from women to be ordained as deacons, as they are in the Episcopal Church.* Though there are no theological obstacles to such a move-indeed, there seems to be precedent for it among early Christians-Rome is likely to yield only slowly to the concept...
...September 1970 New York City Teacher Gary Ackerman asked the board of education for an unpaid paternity leave so that he could spend more time with his daughter Lauren, then ten months old. Turned down, he went AWOL from his job, with his wife Rita filed a complaint of discrimination with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and sued the board in U.S. district court. Their argument: granting child-care leaves only to women is an invasion of privacy because it forces mothers to be housekeepers and child rearers and prevents husbands and wives from dividing up family responsibilities...
...journalist and later as a customer. He learned enough to place commercial orders for telephone equipment simply by punching the right beep tones on his own touch telephone. He then picked up the equipment and sold it through a dummy firm. Incredibly, the telephone company let his unpaid bills accumulate for three years. The Los Angeles district attorney charged that Schneider stole $1,000,000 worth of goods in that manner, and the engineer drew a 40-day jail sentence. Now on probation, he is setting up a firm to advise businesses on how to protect themselves against the kind...
...make running even more difficult, there are usually at least 15 candidates for six jobs, a phenomenon which seems particularly incredible since a School Committeeman is unpaid. "The first time you run you have to spend at least six months with four or five full-time volunteers, not to mention 100 to 200 part-time volunteers. That year it was a helpful thing for me to be a woman," Ackermann explained...