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...membership is screaming 'Hell no!' on this deal," says a GM worker from Rochester. "We will no longer allow them to hold the old 'Do it, or we will close your plant' b.s. over us any longer. Our feeling is basically, Go ahead. They have already taken too much for us to care anymore." (See 10 milestones on the road to GM's bankruptcy...
...understanding their purpose, and who embrace causes unprepared and unable to make a difference. Through Beard, McEwan hints that satisfaction is derived from the daily accomplishment of one’s own goals, rather than a perpetual search for a better future. But while living in the moment might allow for immediate happiness, it prevents the reflection necessary for addressing problems of the future, whether that problem is global warming or finding a companion in life...
...public-school teacher, I have witnessed the downside of teachers' unions and agree with Joe Klein's "Failing Our Schools" in some respects [Feb. 8]. However, using only test scores as a gauge for accountability--as required for the Race to the Top funding that Klein extols--doesn't allow administrators to fully evaluate how successful and hardworking a teacher is. Socioeconomics, student support at home and how students are grouped from classroom to classroom may stack results to favor some teachers and unfairly disadvantage others. The unions and government must work together to establish fair accountability and a system...
...then girlfriend, a former Miss World USA, on a fact-finding trip to Pakistan. The kind of man, his House colleagues used to say, who could strut while sitting down. Still, he was elected 12 times from Lufkin, Texas--a town so conservative that it didn't vote to allow alcohol sales until 2006. Even those who disagreed with Wilson couldn't help but like him: the liberal columnist Molly Ivins wrote admiringly that he hadn't "an ounce of hypocrisy." Charlie Wilson's War, the 2007 movie about his work as the chief backer of the Afghan mujahedin...
Furthermore, the spending must be high enough to return the economy to normal employment in the foreseeable future, because this is the only solution to avert the generational and psychological catastrophe that will come with high unemployment. However, the necessity of such spending proposals does not allow us to ignore our deficit. Our excessive borrowing is a serious, long-term problem and should be dealt with by focusing on the skyrocketing costs of Medicare and Social Security instead of curbing domestic outlays that are necessary for economic recovery. But any fiscal reforms will be useless if they are implemented...