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...Representatives in a bid to raise maternal leave compensation from 12 weeks to six months. Though addressed mainly to those women for whom working is not a choice, the bill also responds to a larger issue: Namely, the stubborn remnants of a corporate culture that has yet to yield to maternal imperatives...
...health and deteriorating relationships. Nightmares may plague the miners, says disaster expert Raphael, as might survivor guilt connected with the death of their colleague, Larry Knight, 44, who was operating the machine to which Webb and Russell's cage was attached. And while their ordeal could yield lucrative media deals, they'll have to come to grips with forever being known as the two blokes who were stuck in the mine. When hauled out of the darkness, Webb and Russell will face a new world...
...opposed to the idea of any censure from the Ad Board in this specific case. Some believe that the College should not interfere in what is not primarily an academic matter, others, that any offense committed has already been amply punished without Harvard’s intervention. To yield to either consideration, however, would be an abdication of responsibility. Media attention is not an acceptable surrogate for affirmation by the College of its values. Similarly, respect for these values must always be expected of students if affiliation with the community is to mean more to its members than access...
...this awesome field." The current series of U.S. H-bomb tests had thus far been successful "and enormous potential has been added to our military posture." As to the reports that the March 1 blast (TIME. March 22) had got out of hand, no such thing was true-"the yield was about double that of the calculated estimate-a margin of error not incompatible with a totally new weapon...
...this point." But the changes by themselves are not a panacea. The sources of Bush's woes - mostly fueled by Iraq but also including high oil prices and stymied policies like the partial privatization of Social Security - aren't likely to change until the policies themselves either change or yield better results. The staff turnovers that lead to new policies tend to work best. Those that just change names don't. In the case of Reagan, the arrival of Washington fixer Kenneth Duberstein as chief of staff coincided with a push for arms control with Mikhail Gorbachev and new initiatives...