61. Emergency clearing houses have been set up to help them find jobs, and the state has waived the seven-day waiting period for unemployment benefits. 62. Employers, by the way, would still be free to impose unlimited waiting periods before you can enroll in the company-sponsored health insurance. 63. Europe has such waiting periods, and a divorce rate half of ours. 64. Even the modest five-day waiting period of the Brady law is under attack. 65. Except for Delaware, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, all the states with waiting periods are in the South and Midwest. 66. Executives who leave their companies before the waiting period ends usually must forfeit restricted shares. 67. Extending the waiting period before coverage begins is one way to reduce premiums. 68. Federal regulations require a six-month waiting period between a merger and a stock buy-back. 69. Federated Department Stores Inc., Cincinnati, said the antitrust review waiting period had expired for its proposed acquisition of Broadway Stores Inc., Los Angeles. 70. Floridians voted solidly to let counties impose waiting periods on firearms sold at gun shows. |