Word: almost
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Aaron D. Bartley, a member of the PSLM in his second year at Harvard Law School, agreed with the figures UNICCO gave but said in an e-mail "They failed to mention that almost all their workers are part-time (not by choice), that part-timers don't have health benefits." He also said that UNICCO workers have told him that they don't take vacations because they are scared they'll lose their jobs. These employees in forced part-time status not only do not receive a living wage but also have no way to express their grievances without...
...cloning tool, a.k.a. the rubber stamp. This tool is used on almost every photo printed in any publication. The cloning technique allows designers to sample a portion of a picture and copy it onto another portion, making it easy to remove dust or scratches, blemishes, freckles and other human defects...
...freshman was wedged with a package half way in the door. When people enter with conflicting speeds, riders are forced to leap out to escape, and many end up bruising their heels and (the horror!) sharing one of the four compartments with a stranger. "I've seen a kid almost get cut in half," claims Milton E. Otto '03, a frightened Physics 15 student...
...terms on a legal level, it seems to me that if students take notes in class of what a professor says--verbatim or almost verbatim--and then publish that, that arguably constitutes a copyright infringement," Connors says. "It's well-established as a matter of law that professors own the copyright on their own lectures...
...dragon it is trying to slay. Beijing ratcheted up its campaign against the religious group Thursday, branding it a "devil-cult" and vowing to show it no mercy. But despite the heavy prison sentences that Chinese law prescribes for members of cults, hundreds of Falun Gong members continued their almost daily protests in Tiananmen Square and elsewhere in China. Although the authorities fear the consequences of allowing a millions-strong religious sect whose leader is based in the U.S. to flourish beyond official control in China, the very form of the Falun Gong protest - quiet meditation and exercise - highlights...