Twenty years ago last February; President Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. The FMLA allows many employees who have been in their jobs for a year‚ working for employers with 50 or more workers‚ to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid‚ job-protected leave to care for a new baby or a spouse‚ child or parent with a serious health condition – or to address their own serious health problem. Since it became law in 1993‚ workers in this country have used it to take leave. Those leave-takers
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America ’s Accountability to its Constitution and the Events at Abu Ghraib - ... While I agree that “severe” is a matter of perspective‚ what went on at Abu Ghraib‚ the depraved acts against Iraqis and humanity‚ were certainly torture. Trying to argue against that point would be somewhere on the order of arguing against gravity. The pictures speak for themselves (Unauthored). And also consider this: the woman who took the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs was “…convicted by a court-martial‚ in May
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Revisiting “Truth in Securities Revisited”: Abolishing IPOs and Harnessing Private Markets in the Public Good A.C. Pritchard* Abstract: This essay explores the line between private and public markets. I propose a two‐tier market system to replace initial public offerings. The lower tier would be a private market restricted to accredited investors; the top tier would be a public market with unlimited access. The transition between the two markets would be based on
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personal liberties and the economy is not usually allowed by law‚ usually in a written Constitution. It is closely related to free market libertarianism and some tendencies of liberalism and conservatism in the United States." "...The Tenth Amendment codified that any delegated powers of the federal government are only authorized to be performed so long as such delegated powers are expressly delegated to the federal government specifically by the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution limits the power
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countries (where English is generally the L1)‚ ‘outer circle’ countries (where English plays an institutional role as an L2)‚ and ‘expanding circle’ countries (where English is learnt as a foreign language). Inner circle Englishes have been described and codified‚ and outer circle varieties are also in the process of standardizing. Should learners in expanding circle countries therefore continue to look upon NS English as their model? Or should they follow the example of outer circle countries and confidently
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The UK’s constitution‚ once revered as the matchless constitution ‚ has come under scrutiny in regards to whether the recent constitutional system that it holds is the best way to govern a country. The definition of a constitution can be stated as a “whole system of government of a country‚ the collection of rules which establish and regulate or govern the government” . The UK’s constitution is identified as an unwritten constitution‚ though not to be taken literally as the constitutional laws
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The preamble states that the purpose of the Constitution is to create "a more perfect union" and help make the United Sates of America a place of freedom. The Bill of Rights presents the fundamental freedoms of human rights. It lays out what people are entitled to and what the government cannot take away. Both of these documents provide evidence that the United States’ government should be fair and reasonable‚ and lays out what is needed for the country to be successful. The rights and responsibilities
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Innovation‚ the source of sustained advantage for most companies‚ depends upon the individual and collertive expertise of employees. Some of this expertise is captured and codified in software‚ hardware‚ and processes. Yet tacit knowledge also underlies many competitive capabilities—a fact driven home to some companies in the wake of aggressive downsizing‚ when undervalued knowledge walked out the door. The marvelous capacity of the human mind to make sense of a lifetime’s collection of experience
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painted in or around 1482 for Lorenzo de Medici‚ better known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492)‚ the great ruler of Florence and patron of the arts. The scholars‚ Professor Guidoni says‚ missed the real point of the masterpiece. It was a codified representation of Lorenzo’s ambitious‚ and abortive‚ plan for unifying Italy through a network of alliances between the warring city states. Lorenzo had thus anticipated Garibaldi’s struggle to unite Italy by almost 400 years. Professor Guidoni
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international relationship. 4. Substantive law and procedural: substantive law is the statutory or written law that defines rights and duties‚ such as crimes and punishments (in the criminal law)‚ civil rights and responsibilities in civil law. It is codified in legislated statues or can be enacted through the initiative process. While procedural law or adjective law comprises the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil law suit‚ criminal or administrative proceedings. The rules
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