Word: accomplishments
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...silence,” president of SEIU Local 615, Rocio Saenz, said to the crowd on Friday. AlliedBarton has denied these allegations. “In the course of [several months of dialogue with its employees at Harvard], AlliedBarton has proposed several reasonable options to the SEIU which would accomplish these essential goals and offer each of our employees the opportunity to express their personal choice without fear of intimidation, coercion or retribution,” Larry Rubin, a spokesman for AlliedBarton wrote in an e-mail. SEIU’s Morse argues that because security guards at other AlliedBarton...
...Organizations and individuals are using initiatives like this to accomplish policy change," says Jeannie Bowser, policy analyst with the National Conference of State Legislatures. She noted, "If it passes, it may be an indication of a change in public attitudes...
...Americans is going to be aware of negative stereotypes of black Americans as not being middle class or highly educated or high-income, although that’s not true at all,” she says. “People who are at Harvard, who are very highly accomplished, and facing very successful careers would want to counter that stereotype…they’re saying ‘we’ve arrived.’”However, the BSA also works on giving a voice to the black community outside of Harvard...
Ultimately, clothing companies need to decide exactly what they are trying to accomplish. In one instance, their dishonest and inconsistent sizing standards seem targeted towards allowing larger-sized women to feel better about their bodies. However, the continual addition of ever smaller sizes and the use of tiny models for advertising send the unintended message that it is perfectly acceptable, and perhaps desirable, for women to aspire to rail-thin figures. If the fashion industry really has any concern for its consumers, rather than simultaneously lying to us and advancing conformity to precarious celebrity trends, it should focus on encouraging...
...decides the next two years are about revenge, or about governing--and whether she can keep her troops in line. "They listen to no one," she told TIME earlier this year. "They don't even listen to each other." Pelosi's initial goals, which she says she wants to accomplish in the Democrats' first 100 legislative hours in power, are modest and relatively uncontroversial. She would have the House pass bills aimed at raising the minimum wage, cutting student-loan interest rates, allowing the Federal Government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients...