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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune BUSINESS Friday,April5,2002_ cE Single, Childless Women Earn More CONSUMERCORNER Salaries of similar males slightly lower, report finds Mates Merion Rates WASHINGTON for 2001 will catch up with men’s on April 16 this year. “One would suspect that women in that group, who do not havefamilies, may be GANNETT NEWS SERVICE DropSlightly age rates aroundthe coun y edged down this weekaf creeping up four weeks in a career they find verysatisfying,” said Vicky Lovell at the Institute forWo Women’s amongfull-time workers who have never married or had children and live alone. Thefindings by the EmpioymentPolicy yw, according to a nation | | | | from7.18 percent the previ sweek. Ay “0-year rte ed percent dollar earned by men in the whyit does differ. All of the research and the data showthatit is not something going onin the work force.It’s whatis going on among families.” Bird’s theory is that employers are not responsible for the lower pay. And if that theory holds upin lawsuits, it could shield employers from large Equal pay advocates say the Employment Policy Foundation report, which used data from the government’s March 2001 Current Population Survey, has lim- same | | t since Freddie | November, their | an conducting its nationwide survey in 1971 en though rates have od higher since that situation faced by working group, who makean average 0 But the study’s author, economist Ron Bird, says the findings are important be- women also to recover punitive and com- cause they arguably show that lower payis pensatory damages. DENVER Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt joined his THE ASSOCIATED PRESS counterparts Thursday to rethink economic development strategies for success in the 21st century. WASHINGTON spondtoindustry needs, reducinglegislative blocks to development and promotingglobal trade. The goal is to re-create the successes of wellknownclusters of competing and cooperating companies like the computer and software locus of Silicon Valley in California, the telecommunications industryin Denver and the auto industry in Detroit. & Johnson is i shipments and re calling s¢ versions ofits Ortho icronor birth. control pill because of mis takes in the labeling that tells women how touse the contracepti leaders which will create an environmentthat can be fostered,” Leavitt said. ry day to pre- Michigan Gov. John Engler said that means encouraging the 5,000 software companies that have sprung up around Detroit’s auto industry to make pill and must progestin t One portion t-instruction rrectly tells are still pro- women they HH dis “In 20 years, people are still going to need trans- job losses,” said David Gullickson, vice president of Precision Tube would defeat the purpose of imposnem the tariffs,” he said. emption requests are filed jinbyte foreigsteinaker and Technology Inc., a Houston-based ‘the American companies that use company that makes coiled tubing used in oil and gas exploration and production. J Precision Tube, which has 100 their products. Arcelor, a Luxembourg-based company and the world’s largest steelmaker, has applied for25. daylong forum sponsored by National Governors Association and the Council on Competitiveness, a coalition of business, university and labor leaders. Scientists have published the first papers on the entire genomesfor twodifferent types of rice, based in part on work done by Salt Lake City’s Myr. iad Genetics. The papers on thefully se- quenced genomefor indica and japonica rice werepublished in thejournal Science. As riceis a staple food for half the worid’s population, the findings are considered important in the fight against global hunger. Myriad helped sequence the 2 for the japonica rice. for the genedisparity. In some human genes, the RNAproduced is spliced in different ways to produce multi- dication whether the exemptions would be granted. Last month, the Bush administration imposed punitive tariffs of upto 30 percentover three years on certain kinds of imported steel. Bush administration levied last month. It must decide by July 3 ple versionsofa protien. Plants may rely more on duplicate genes than splicing to produce the varietyof proteins. Steven Briggs, Syngenta’s head of genomics, said the rice breakthrough will revolutionize plant breeding. “Forthefirst time, the DNA sequenceof a crop has been determined,” Briggs said. With the giobal population continuing to grow and the amount of quality farmland shrinking, there is pressure to develop higher-yield crops. Brigham Young University’s Daniel Fairbanks, a professor of botanyand range science, said rice, wheat and corn are the world’s three most important crops. Rice had the small- est, most compact genome of the trio, which is why it was mapped first. The rice genome may serve as the Rosetta stone for the world of crop genetics. grain, is popular in Japan while indica is commonin China ‘Thepapers indicatethatrice has between 46,000 and 20613 WD 7k PRM's, Sony 52K. USR SOKBS Fax Modem, SoundBlaster Liv Dolby 5.1, MS > ee ee eeEe canes: have an aderw's XP Home, 17° RAZY & Athion 26 REs 1280x1024 = Monitor. 1'Y¥r Warranty. 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Mersaid the officials gave no in- Scientists Publish Entire Genomes for Two Kinds of Rice BY GREG LAVINE THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE agement services for its 46,000-plus members in Santa Barbara County, Calif. “We are not asking for a major The Commerce Department has received 1,500 such requests for exemptions from the tariffs that the ment teams from 10 central and Western states at a apharmacy benefits manager based in =Lake City, said the Barbara Health Authority chose i to exemption to the tariffs. We just want one oncertain specialty products so that our customers are not neethe product profitable. The governors joined state economic develop- harmacies. ail ment has been reluctant to grant these kinds of exemptions as they employees, uses a type of hot-rolled steel that is treated with special chemicals and is only produced abroad. It buys about $15 million worth of steel annually, an amount that many American steelmakers say is too small to make manufac- portation,” Engler said. “Our plan is to see how we replace the sion in packs hed doctors’ of or be granted. Analyst Charles Bradford said he doubts the companies’ pleas will be sure we can absorb that withoutre- can leverage the strengths of our existing industry and be attractive to the next evolvinglevel.” sending out any chances are that the exemptions will ducing production and that means transportation that haveyet to be invented. drug wholesalers to return grant effective. “In the past, the govern- sure both industries are ready for new modes of tected if they miss apill during the last of their s said. monthly cycle is asking Th to quests but declined to say what the lion dollars to our costs, and Iam not “We want to begin to focus on nanotechnology, we want to begin to talk about human genetics, the interaction of information and privacy, and the demand that will be placed on local andstate policy a is whether Companies that make products such as oil equipment and plastic moldings havebeen telling the Bush administration that their businesses will Someoftheir ideas include coordinating jobs and education, developing science and technology to re- Birth-ControlPills Are Recalled — should be completed by fail. a provide prescription man- US., Foreign Companies Seek Exemptions From Steel Tariffs Governors Brainstorm Economic Success Ideas ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS analysts believe that rate: ill be fairly cronor Currentfederal law makes employers liable only for back pay, but there is pro- | Rates on 30-year morthitalowof6.45 percent Ortho awards. ited value because it involves such a small of the U.S. work force —about 4 percent. segment every dollar earned by men, according to the } ational Committee on Pay Equity. 7.01 Policy Research in Washington. “I think to get married and then choose to have situation. That's dramaticallydifferent from the . the implication in setting up a research project like this is that women who choose children,thenit’s their problem.” Foundation, a pro-employer think tank, ’ survey released found these never-married, childless caThursday reddie Mac, the mort- | reer women earn almost $1.02 for every company, reported that average rest rate on xed-rate mortgages lippedto percent, down we “We are trying to remove the family and parental choice factors from the equation and see whatis left there,” said Bird. “The overall result isthat while men and women’s earnings differ, what is importantis single and living alone because theyare iin WASHINGTON American women generallyarepaid less than men, buta new study adds a twist to that longstanding finding by pointing out it isn’t the case Mort a regult of family and parental choices rather than gender discrimination in the The group estimates women’s annual pay CREDIT UNION Feeseereaapampee! 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