No comment.Best Definition of Irony The union representing the National Labor Relations Board National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), independent agency of the U.S. government created under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act), and amended by the acts of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Labor Act) and 1959 (Landrum-Griffin Act), which affirmed labor's right lawyers is considering filing an unfair labor practices Conduct prohibited by federal law regulating relations between employers, employees, and labor organizations. Before 1935 U.S. labor unions received little protection from the law. claim against the board. "The union alleges the board has failed to bargain in good faith," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report in The Wall Street Journal. Both sides have been negotiating since September 2000. Inflated Self-Worth Breathe a sigh of relief. Arthur L. Carter's weekly New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Observer is not for sale, we're told in The New York Times. How important is this 50,000 circulation weekly? Just ask Carter: "We're a small organization, but when we lay off three people it's bigger news here than when U.S. Steel The United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) is an integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States and Central Europe. The company is the world's seventh-largest steel producer ranked by sales (see list of steel producers). lays off 20,000," he told the Times. Earned-Income Tax Harassment The working poor accounted for 55 percent of all IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. audits last year. The likelihood of people being audited if they're in this bracket is 1 in 174 returns, as compared to 1 in 208 for people who make over $100,000, according to The New York Times. Audits of the working poor centered on people who use the earned-income tax credit. Audits of large corporations fell to 1 in 6, down from 1 in 4 five years earlier. C-Notes from Heaven Reuters reported that U.S. military aircraft dropped $100 bills tucked into envelopes bearing the picture of President Bush over southern Afghanistan. Some of the envelopes, however, fluttered into Pakistan. Both areas are considered strongholds of support for the Taliban and Al Qaeda. "People pushed and fought with each other to get their hands on the envelopes," reported the news service. Oh, That Explains Everything New York Magazine media critic Michael Wolff This article is about the musician. For the Missouri judge, see Michael A. Wolff. Michael Wolff (born September 19, 1954 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and actor. offers this analysis on why some political/media insiders insist ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. newsguy George Stephanopoulos George Robert Stephanopoulos (born February 10, 1961) is an American broadcaster and political adviser. He is currently ABC News's Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC's Sunday morning news show This Week. is gay: "I think the gay thing is used to explain why he doesn't act like we might assume he should. He's on his best behavior ... because he may not want us to see who he really is." Way to Go, Fellas! War means never having to say you're sorry. Just ask General Tommy Franks, commander of military operations in Afghanistan. His boys don't need to apologize for killing sixteen civilians in a night-time raid in February. "In fact, I have some respect for the discipline and quality of effort as [the team] moved through the compounds," Franks told the press. Unrighteous Indignation Robert Novak, he of the overheated o·ver·heat v. o·ver·heat·ed, o·ver·heat·ing, o·ver·heats v.tr. 1. To heat too much. 2. To cause to become excited, agitated, or overstimulated. v.intr. rhetoric and excessive frowning, skewers the Dems for blaming the Enron scandal on the Republicans. "They seize on any Bush official's connection with the company as evidence of impropriety," he writes in his February 21 Chicago SunTimes column, adding that this is "less solidly grounded in reality than McCarthyism was a half-century ago." Apocalypse Now ... We Hope A New York state parole board nixed Amy Fisher's appearance on the Fox Television game show Celebrity Boxing because it "would not be conducive to her continued parole supervision and would send an inappropriate message to victims of violent crime." According to the Associated Press, Fisher was set to bust heads with Tonya Harding. Paula Jones graciously consented to step in for Fisher. Truth Gets in the Way ... Again Business 2.0 ad critic John Gaffney theorizes that the requirement forcing hard booze manufacturers to mention the ill effects of their products is one reason why they haven't flooded television networks with advertising despite low ad rates. "Hardly a case study for effective branding--especially in these down times," Gaffney writes. Readers are invited to submit No Comment items. Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication. Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned. |
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