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...health care did not appear to be the immediate cause of the snag in negotiations. The strike was prompted by GM's prospective production plans, particularly the construction of a new assembly plant in Mexico that could be ready to export vehicles to the U.S. in about one year. Surprised union members cited job security as the key issue as they walked out of GM assembly plants around Detroit. "They just told us we were going on strike and it was about job security," said one member of UAW Local 594 in Pontiac, Mich. only moments after the strike began...
...even that defense is loaded with race issues that this campus faces reluctantly, if not purposefully avoids. Why did 100 black students—many who lived in the Quad—appear so foreign to the vigilant Quadlings that day? One conventional answer is self-segregation: Black students stick to their own, so others are slow to recognize them. The blame shifts—inappropriately—to the campus’s minority groups...
...visitors were able to take the first game, 30-27, but Harvard righted itself quickly and was in control from there on out.Senior Laura Mahon led the team with 20 kills and a .321 hitting percentage, and senior Lauren Las added 11 kills on 21 attempts in her second appearance of the year.Las, who is returning from injury, was praised by her coach for her contributions this weekend.“She did a great job,” Weiss said. “She had an injury in preseason, but she’s been working hard...
...compare the cost of required class texts across a handful of Internet vendors as well as the putatively more pricy Coop. This year, however, presented a previously unencountered difficulty. Many course syllabi, typically posted on the Internet in the week or two prior to Shopping Period, did not appear on-line until the day before classes begun. Bereft of syllabi, Crimson Reading had to resort to extreme measures to acquire the lists of required texts for each course...
...into the open. While it falls to the Bank of England to shore up stability in the country's banking sector, it's the job of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to supervise individual banks. Callum McCarthy, the regulator's chairman, and CEO Hector Sants are now set to appear in front of the parliamentary committee next month. Alistair Darling, the U.K. Chancellor, is expected to show too. Expect the FSA to come in for even more criticism than King, reckons Buik. In the longer term, though, King's banking that the crisis leaves no serious harm done. "Headlines come...