Word: april
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...plus service must equal 75--for retiree medical eligibility. He said that while most of the staff would leave the University by the end of June, some may remain for a few extra months in order to ensure a smooth transition.FAS Dean Michael D. Smith had announced in April that 153 out of 521 eligible staff in his school accepted the buyout packages--a slight discrepancy from the most recent figures possibly caused by the delayed delivery of packages, according to University spokesman John D. Longbrake. But in light of a looming $220 million FAS budget deficit over the next...
...spent $13.3 billion in Mexico, the third biggest source of foreign income after remittances and oil exports. This year all three of these moneymakers are being clobbered. While the price of petroleum nose-dived with the crisis, the recession north of the border pushed Mexican remittances down 18.6% in April compared with the same time last year. To add to these woes, Mexico's manufacturing sector has been battered by a drop in spending in the U.S. In total, the Mexican government predicts the economy will shrink 5.5% this year. But some private analysts speculate the decline might be more...
...says that it still respects the science, but is mindful of the public reaction to the pandemic-alert phases - perhaps even more so after the global media went into spasms after the level rose to 5 on April 29. There are, of course, real dangers to a panicked reaction, beyond the assault of tabloid headlines. When people panic about a new disease, they start flooding the hospitals even when there's nothing wrong with them - a phenomenon carried out by the "worried well." They suck up limited resources from patients who are really sick from the virus - or are sick...
...laws that made it much easier for community lands to be sold. Congress promised to examine and vote on repealing other laws, primarily a new Forestry and Wildlife Law. That never happened and AIDESEP, representing the bulk of Peru's 500,000 indigenous people, resumed the jungle protest April...
...round of protests were low-key in the beginning, but tensions increased as the weeks passed. Indigenous demonstrators began blocking roads and rivers, as well as the northern oil pipeline. The pipeline was closed in late April and the state oil company announced it was losing nearly $120,000 daily. Oil fields in the northern jungle were closed in early June. This was, apparently, one of the reasons that led to the fatal decision to order police officers to open roads and the remove protesters from the pipeline. Garcia has been talking about making Peru an oil and gas superpower...