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...eradicate, discrimination against women and minorities in the workplace has been illegal in America for years. But for people with physical and mental disabilities, substantial obstacles to suitable employment have remained in place -- until now. On July 26, a major new law, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), went into effect for companies with 25 or more employees -- which means that 87% of U.S wage earners will be covered...
...Nancy Fulco, an attorney with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which supported the bill, argues that economic benefits will outweigh the costs. "The business community is in desperate need of qualified labor, and this opens up a huge untapped resource of workers," she says. The EEOC, which administers the ADA, estimates that the average cost of accommodating a disabled worker will be $260. The act is expected to save the government $220 million a year by helping people with disabilities get off public assistance and onto the tax rolls...
...after the bombing, Radcliffe President Ada L. Comstock addressed the college's entire student body, emphasizing the key role Radcliffe would play in the war and encouraging students to support their country's cause...
...Monday after Pearl Harbor, RadcliffePresident Ada L. Comstock gathered the studentbody in Agassiz Theater and urged all of us torealize that the bombings were not the end of theworld, and that the greater part of our liveswould come after...
...benefits of bilingual study may also apply to students who learn English as a second language. According to Alma Flor Ada, a multicultural language expert at the University of San Francisco, many students, particularly Asians, who study English in immersion programs back home or upon arrival in the U.S. have the same learning patterns and achievement characteristics. That might account for the steady stream of visitors to Great Falls elementary, especially from Japan. Now that country has paid the young students of its own language the ultimate compliment: Japan wants to establish similar partial- immersion programs in elementary schools -- using...