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In addition, although age-discrimination suits rarely become known beyond the parties involved, some workers fear that word of one might get to a prospective employer and hurt their chances of being hired. Moreover, if an employee wins an out-of-court settlement, the employer almost invariably demands an ironclad...
When A. JERROLD PERENCHIO, an Italian-American Republican, poured $1.5 million into fighting California's anti-bilingual-education initiative two months ago, it seemed an obvious ploy: Perenchio, as head of Univision, the major Spanish-language TV network, was seeking to curry favor with his audience. But Perenchio wasn't...
But the old-line mullahs, led by the Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, are determined to blunt the new President's reformist efforts. Conservative-controlled state radio immediately dismissed Albright's olive branch as nothing new, demanding that the U.S. apologize for a half-century of wrongs toward Iran. In...
It didn't even last the weekend. Starting with a nationally televised retreat from his pledge by Hashimoto on Sunday, Japanese officials have executed an impressive flip-flop. Hashimoto hadn't actually "used the words 'permanent tax cuts,'" said Deputy Chief Cabinet Minister Teijiro Furukawa, and Obuchi "didn't make...
Like a horror movie in which the monster keeps coming back, Indonesia can't seem to shake off Suharto. The New York Times reports that the former dictator is courting military officers and offering to fund the campaigns of legislators who pledge loyalty -- meaning that they'll do everything in...