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...already drawing up battle plans to attack another enemy, Iraq. While Saddam Hussein’s regime has engaged in heinous activities in the past, America has no imperative to take military action at this time. Unless the political and military situation changes drastically, the U.S. should not wage war against Iraq for the sake of prolonging the war on terrorism...
...access to education somehow constitutes just punishment for drug-related offenses. Rapists, murderers and other violent criminals, upon their acceptance to any university, still receive full consideration for federal financial aid, yet teenagers guilty of possessing a dime bag of marijuana are not. In its effort to wage war on drugs, the government has lost its sense of perspective on the relative severity of crimes and seems determined to single out drug offenders for permanent punishment. While thieves may spend time incarcerated, they are free to build a new and better life once released. Drug offenders, on the other hand...
SEIU Deputy Trustee Rocio Saenz said that subcontracted janitors should see the wage increases in their paychecks by the end of the month...
Patricia Alston, who works at a Baltimore catering company, would agree. Seven years after that city's living wage was enacted, she has had her first beach vacation and is poised to become a homeowner. "The living wage contributed a great deal to my ability to get the house," she says. Like Jerome Gibbons, the Los Angeles airport worker, Alston has seen her job transformed from a dead end to a vehicle of hope. For all the costs and uncertainties of the living wage, that may be the strongest argument in its favor. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/New Orleans...
...which everyone from top managers to janitors pored over financial data. Those who couldn't read the data got training. That helped them make day-to-day decisions such as whether a mechanic should repair an engine's connecting rod or install a new one. He could compare his wage, $26 an hour, with the cost of a new rod, $45, and determine that it was worth repairing the old one only if he could do it in 90 minutes or less. "It's about truly understanding the business," says Stack, the author of two management books. Within three years...