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Approved in the Senate by a largely bipartisan vote of 71 to 27 and in the House 247 to 152, the bill will require companies with at least 50 employees to offer 12 weeks of unpaid leave each year to care for an ill family member, a newborn or an adopted child. Employers must maintain health-insurance coverage for absent workers and allow them to take the same job or an equivalent on their return...
...service candidates voluntarily declare that they are homosexual. After much consternation, the Pentagon passed the word: Take the name and phone number and say you'll get back to them. After all, Pentagon officials reason, there is no point in recruiting people only to put them on unpaid standby reserve, especially since the whole issue of gays in the military is likely to be resolved in the coming months...
Other questions linger. While Moseley-Braun's campaign is more than $400,000 in debt and most staff members went unpaid for weeks, Matthews received a $15,000-a-month salary through Nov. 15. Moseley-Braun tried to put some of her former campaign staff members on the government payroll by giving them jobs at the Cook County recorder's office; after her successor complained, she admitted she had made a mistake...
...personal section of my files under the neatly typed label "TO DO." Maybe I'll type a new label that says "IMPOSSIBLE" so that the flier is not out of place. After all, those grand plans don't sit very well next to my latest batch of unpaid bills...
Because of their proximity to power, the hired guns in Bush's posse are the most controversial. Charles Black, the unpaid senior political adviser to the Bush campaign, is a partner in the public relations firm of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, which represents a rebel faction in Angola; the governments of Greece and Nigeria; and the Pacific Seafood Processors Association, which battled the Commerce Department earlier this year for the right to process a larger share of the $800 million Alaskan pollack catch. James Lake, Bush's unpaid deputy campaign manager, is a partner in the public relations firm...