[PEN-L:162] question, mostly for those in SF Bay area

1998-09-19 Thread DOUG ORR
This msg is directed mostly at those living in the SF Bay area. Others can delete it immediately. I have moved to the Bay area for a year while I am on sabbatical, and I need to find an Internet provider. I suspect there are several in the area that do progressive work, and I'd rather give

[PEN-L:160] query

1998-09-19 Thread Mike Yates
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --564581128D7A044B3650D447 Friends, This January I will be teaching an economics course in UMass-Amherst's MA program in Union Leadership and Administation. The students come from various backgrounds, some are higher-level union or AFL-CI

[PEN-L:161] Table manners

1998-09-19 Thread Tom Walker
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing-wax -- Of cabbages -- and kings -- And why the sea is boiling hot -- And whether pigs have wi

[PEN-L:157] Henry Hyde (3 of 3)

1998-09-19 Thread Michael Eisenscher
That was a red flag to Anderson. Typically savings and loansÜd financed home construction and sales in their local areas. After 1979, when the Federal Reserve Board drove interest rates up dramatically, many savings and loans found themselves having to pay high interest rates to attract m

[PEN-L:158] Henry Hyde (2 of 3)

1998-09-19 Thread Michael Eisenscher
>From 1981 to July 1984 Hyde was a member of the board of directors of Clyde Federal Savings and Loan Association of North Riverside. In 1990 the federal government's Office of Thrift Supervision put the institution into receivership. Ultimately on May 31, 1991 its assets were transferred to the R

[PEN-L:159] Henry Hyde (1 of 3)

1998-09-19 Thread Michael Eisenscher
TO: All of you and I sure hope there are many. Enclosed are two files about Henry Hyde. Not the sex stuff, but the Savings and Loan stuff. Looks like the entire media world knows and WILL not do anything about it. This includes: Chicago Tribune, Dalas Morning News, Center for Public Integrity,

[PEN-L:156] long hours - Japan medical study

1998-09-19 Thread Tom Walker
(2) WORKING LONG HOURS CAN DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH - BUT SO CAN WORKING VERY FEW (Working hours as a risk factor for acute myocardial infarction in Japan: case-control study) http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/317/7161/775 It is suspected that extremely long working hours increase the risk of s

[PEN-L:155] Life expectancy falls in Europe

1998-09-19 Thread Tom Walker
Just out in the British Medical Journal: BMJ 1998;317:767 ( 19 September ) News Life expectancy falls in Europe Adrea Mach, Geneva Laying the blame squarely on "poverty, unemployment, homelessness, excessive drinking, and smoking" and on health reforms that are too reliant on "market forces," th