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39046 disabled hurt by ADA -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >I haven't read this whole paper, but I do know that the consensus seems >to be that employment of people with disabilities(pwds) has dropped since >1986 (the ADA was passed in 1990, effective in 1991). I haven't read any of the paper, but my guess was that the authors' critique of the ADA wouldn't be yours, but would more like Phil Gramm opposing a minimum wage increase - that legislation against the natural laws of the market only hurts those it's meant to help. I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 20 15:10:07 PST 1999

39047 Greenspan Opposes Investing Social Security In Stocks -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >Is it just me, or this something new? A Fed chairman coming out against >a presidential initiative the day after its proposed? I think that >Greenspan has begun to believe his own press. He's said this before. Republican capital seems not to want any federal money in the stock market; Democratic capital likes the idea. (Unions and philanthropies already have big stock portfolios.) Greenspan is a Republican. On top of that, it could be that the central banker in him ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 20 14:54:36 PST 1999

39048 What "Black Nationalism Debates" Do to Us -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >It's appropriate to quote something I heard >Baraka say in a talk 30 years ago about radicals >and blacks, something I took to heart. He said >if you're serious about politics, you should be >able to organize your own people. So Max, you organizing leftish DC policy wonks? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 20 09:31:53 PST 1999

39049 Joint Chiefs shakedown? -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >Sure, but "was leaked" is a particularly weasely way to present information. >CH's use of the passive voice makes it really unclear whether it was even >leaked to *him* -- maybe it's 4th or 5th hand info, or pure conjecture >based on >something leaked to someone else. It's not like it's attributed to "a >high-ranking >official who was at the meeting" -- any implication that he talked to a live >person who was there would be a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 20 09:22:41 PST 1999

39050 Social Security -- rank: 1000

When Clinton proposed to use 62% of the budget surplus to "save" Social Security, and another 15% to "save" Medicare, I thought - isn't the surplus now 100% the result of SS/Medicare premiums? So wouldn't using just 77% represent a lesser amount for the rescue than just perpetuating the status quo? Am I missing something? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 20 09:18:52 PST 1999

39051 disabled hurt by ADA -- rank: 1000

Progress in Economics (cont.): >"Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans > With Disabilities Act" > > BY: DARON ACEMOGLU > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > Department of Economics > National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) > JOSHUA ANGRIST > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > Department of Economics > >Paper ID: NBER Working Paper ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 20 08:25:29 PST 1999

39052 Fwd: TP: Trotsky speech in RealAudio -- rank: 1000

[I think the direct access is <http://www.webcorp.com/trotsky.ram>. Also Malcolm X, MLK, Nixon, Churchill, at <http://www.webcorp.com/realaudio/realaudiogallery.html>.] >X-Authentication-Warning: lists.village.virginia.edu: domo set sender to >owner-trotsky-project at localhost using -f >Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:01:10 -0800 (PST) >X-Sender: tomcondit at pop.igc.org >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: trotsky-project at jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU >From: Tom Condit <to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 19 19:15:59 PST 1999

39053 self-promotion -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >Is that Cato, as in the Cato Institute? What's a paleocon doing on a >pinko (OK, _light_ pinko) show like Democracy Now? And who's >interviewing whom? Yes that Cato Institute. And it's a "debate," not one of us interviewing the other. I suggested the idea to the producer when she called me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 19 16:24:35 PST 1999

39054 self-promotion -- rank: 1000

Sorry for the self-promotion, but I'm going to be on Democracy Now tomorrow morning to talk about the State of the Union & Social Security privatization, with Cato's Michael Tanner. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 19 16:14:20 PST 1999

39055 US banks like Brazil -- rank: 1000

American Banker Tuesday, January 19, 1999 U.S. Banks Say Brazil's Troubles Mean Opportunity, Not Losses By James R. Kraus U.S. banks stand to benefit from the economic turbulence in Brazil, according to major banks operating there. "We don't believe we will be negatively affected, and this could well mean increased opportunities for us," said Brian D. O'Neill, managing director and head of Latin American operations for Chase Manhattan Corp. Mr. O'Neill ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 19 13:54:39 PST 1999

39056 Fwd: [PEN-L:2326] BLS Daily Report -- rank: 1000

BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1999 RELEASED TODAY: CPI -- The CPI-U rose 0.1 percent in December, on a seasonally adjusted basis, following increases of 0.2 percent in each of the preceding 2 months. The food index was unchanged in December, after advancing 0.1 percent in November. ... The energy index, which was unchanged in November, fell 1.4 percent in December. ... Excluding food and energy, the CPI-U increased 0.3 percent in December, following increases of 0.2 percent in each o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 19 12:35:20 PST 1999

39057 Hitchens + rule by lawyers -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because of an address kink. If you post from an address different from the one you're subscribed under, then majordomo will reject it.] Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:09:13 -0800 From: Paul Ward <paw196 at soton.ac.uk> Reply-To: paulward at openlink.org Organization: soton uni X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "lbo-talk at lists.panix.com" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: RE: Hitchens + rule by lawyers Content-T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 19 08:26:26 PST 1999

39058 butler... dispossession -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >Well I don't think it has been gone over, that Clinton got it up the >ass--it was in footnotes 168 and 170 I believe. Uh, there are four footnotes in the Starr report that read: "Lewinsky 8/26/98 Depo. at 20. They engaged in oral-anal contact as well. Id." But as far as I know, details weren't provided. Anyone read the whole deposition? Renata Adler had a piece in Vanity Fair a couple of months ago claiming that Monica's deposition also contained ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 19 08:05:41 PST 1999

39059 What "Black Nationalism Debates" Do to Us -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >1. At the most basic level, it always feel a little odd to be confidently >arguing, whether pros or cons, about something called black nationalism >when none of the participants in discussion is a self-identified black >nationalist and only a very few of those present are black. Is it only me >who feels that this unfortunate demographics produces only a lot of hot air >and _nearly zero influence_ on whatever direction political winds might >blow in b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 19 07:59:06 PST 1999

39060 Paula on Brazil, and............Investor's Business Daily on Social Security & MLK -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Of course, since someone pointed out that Carter's troubles didn't start >till Bert Lance was gone, I've taken my paranoia to new levels. Don't forget that Bert Lance told Carter that if he yielded to Wall Street pressure and appointed Paul Volcker chair of the Federal Reserve, he could kiss is re-election chances goodbye. Old Bert sure called that one right. >IBD has headline article on Soc. Sec. First, everyone agrees it's in the >crapper, then, investing in the market ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 19 07:51:02 PST 1999