Word: alongism
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...Police operations, and the Dantas sentencing, evidence the reforms that have strengthened the country’s institutions in the past years. The continuation of these reforms will assure Brazil’s long-term growth and its future place among the great economic powers of the world, perhaps along other BRICs. In the meantime, let’s sit back and wait to see who gets arrested next. And don’t forget to buy those bonds...
...deans also asked that recent Ph.D. recipients, along with faculty from local institutions, be favored in situations where searches for non-ladder faculty instructors and visiting faculty are authorized as essential...
...winning work,“A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” right here in Cambridge. With the encouragement of University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, what started as a 30-page assignment grew into an 80-page term paper and ultimately a book. Power, along with dozens of other scholars, paid tribute to Hoffmann’s influential career at an 80th birthday celebration held at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies on Friday. Throughout the day, Hoffmann’s former students and colleagues hailed him as the kind of professor...
...part of the largest labor sit-in in recent memory. When Republic was still up and running, he had heard rumors about troubled finances. One of the guys on the factory floor said he had heard the company was planning to leave town, and maybe take its employees along. Last Tuesday, however, the factory's estimated 300 employees, including Cabrera, were called into a meeting and told that Republic would shut down three days later. Cabrera, who received a check that covered Thanksgiving week, says he is still due his final paycheck plus compensation for five weeks of vacation time...
...meeting on Monday evening among executives of Republic and Bank of America, along with representatives of the workers' union, was inconclusive, and a new set of meetings is set for Tuesday afternoon...