Meanwhile the grave economic consequences are coming into view, with the Institute of Directors suggesting that a quarter of companies will cease hiring and a fifth may shift operations overseas.
Dillman was a strong defender of Wal-Mart's benefits plan, and said that the Susan Chambers memo that called for Wal-Mart to cease hiring unhealthy people had been misinterpreted.
So it never happened: most big companies chose to maintain their commitment, asking workers to take pay cuts and waive bonuses rather than lose their jobs, but ceased to hire new graduates.
So, given the choice between reforming pensions for new sworn personnel and ceasing police hiring, it's a no-brainer - I choose pension reform.
The missteps finally ceased in December 1998, when Oklahoma hired Bob Stoops, then a 38-year-old defensive coordinator for Steve Spurrier at Florida who also helped Bill Snyder rebuild the program at Kansas State.
The DOJ announced in September 2010 that it had settled with the companies, establishing that they would cease such illegal hiring practices, even though they never had to admit to wrongdoing.
If the military were serious about hiring qualified lawyers, simply ceasing to discriminate would be more effective than quarreling with law schools and alienating their students.
Moreover, as Mr. Brooks points out, the focus on health care has created so much uncertainty in the small-business community that new hiring has all but ceased.
The Ethiopian Queen, as it turns out, has never ceased to long for her daughter and has hired this very Egyptian to search for her.
In 2008, officials reluctantly confirmed that they had been forced to renege on Mr. Daley's vow to hire new officers, and police academy classes ceased training cadets.
