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...favored advance notification, continued to push for the measure. The bill's sponsors cited a 1985 study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that more than half of the 2.2 million workers involved in large-scale layoffs each year received one day's notice or less before being thrown out of work. Had the law been in effect over the past two years, said its backers, more than 1.6 million laid-off workers would have received advance word. Said Robert Byrd, the Senate Democratic leader: "It's not a labor issue. It's a fairness issue...
...figure that is all the more impressive in view of his reputation for taking "impossible" cases. His trick is to combine meticulous research with show-biz instincts. In the 1940s he sued the concessionaire in a New York stadium on behalf of a man hit by a soda bottle thrown from the stands. The vendor argued that nothing could have been done to prevent the injury. Throughout the trial, Lipsig kept on his desk a mysterious brown bag that tantalized the jurors. Not until his final argument did he open the bag to dramatically take from it a paper...
After trying to comfort the woman on the phone, Smith began calling elsewhere to get help, then went to visit the charred wreckage of the house. Somebody had thrown a whiskey bottle full of gasoline into the living room. Another bottle landed in the tiny bedroom where the nine-year-old girl and six-year-old boy lay sleeping with others. One of them was splashed from head to foot. "Her panties were burned into her flesh," said their aunt, Nomsameli Molefe, her own burned arm in a bandage. "The other child caught it mostly in the face...
...wielding assailants is not among them. A teacher in the Bronx was stabbed more than a dozen times by a mugger in an elementary school bathroom last month; another was savagely beaten with a bat after confronting a playground intruder; a third was badly injured by a powerful firecracker thrown into her classroom; a fourth was slugged by a student who objected to being asked to put out his cigarette...
ARENA, by contrast, has thrown its support behind Alfredo Cristiani, 42, the U.S.-educated scion of a wealthy coffee-growing family. A poll released last week by the University of Central America indicated that, as of now, Cristiani would defeat any other presidential candidate by at least 10 percentage points. That would amount to a repudiation of the Duarte record on at least two counts: Cristiani has said that he would return to private hands export industries run by the Duarte administration as state enterprises, and that he would roll back a land-reform program that turned El Salvador...