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...Companies feared that busloads of disabled people were going to beat down the walls seeking employment. It was not the case. What happened was that existing employees sought accommodations." And this a key point: there is already a lot of mental disability in the workplace. The ADA's goal is to remove the stigma of talking about it and coping with it. "Ideally, if you are an employer and you try to use this guidance for problem solving, you are going to avoid litigation most of the time," says Gary Phelan, the co-chairman of the disability-rights committee...
...supports public education. Lisa Kitterman is the only new Republican in the race. She advocates abolishing payroll taxes and instead funding Social Security through a consumption tax. Other candidates, none expected to do much more than take votes away from the frontrunners, include Democrat Marvin Crenshaw and Independents Ada Granado, Steven Hammond and Lisa Hembry...
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Ralph was a daredevil who left school without learning to read or write, recalls his sister Ada Weeding, 62. He was also a drinker, and "when he was drinking, he could blame his wife or kids when things went wrong--it was never his fault," she says. Although Ralph swore off alcohol years ago, Ada thinks he's held on to his old way of thinking, except that now he blames the government and the New World Order. By the early '80s, Ralph was railing against high mortgage rates and unfair foreclosures, and in 1982 he appeared on a 20/20...
...rejection of a proposal to study ovarian cancer as a decision required by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Swallow argued that if Health Net researched ovarian cancer, this law would obligate it to allocate similar resources to other diseases. As one of the principal drafters of the ada and a practicing attorney with extensive experience in disability law, I can tell your readers that Swallow's conclusion is flat wrong. Nothing in the ada requires a company that spends money to find a cure for one disease to expend resources to research other diseases. CAROLYN P. OSOLINIK Washington...