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...expand in part because governments face a steady ramping up of collective bargaining demands. "Decisions about benefits changes can't be made instantaneously as they can be in the private sector," says Blaine Bos, a consultant for Mercer based in Minneapolis, Minn. Instead, government agencies have to battle bit by bit for benefit trims that employees can collectively counter by marshaling great passion. In 2005 when California's Governor Schwarzenegger tried to radically reform the state's expensive pension plan, he met a firestorm of protest from unions, and ultimately backed down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government Jobs Looking Better in the Downturn | 11/22/2008 | See Source »

...ugly second quarter saw Yale move the ball a bit better, although the Bulldogs struggled in their first of two total possessions in the red zone. Unable to get to the goalline, they were forced to settle for a 19-yard field goal that wobbled wide left of the goalposts...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro | Title: HARVARD BEATS YALE 10-0 | 11/22/2008 | See Source »

...stated that he was sensing a bit of suspicion based on the questions he was receiving, and he was concerned about where it was coming from,” Brodnicki said. “Part of the challenge is that there are some things we just don’t know yet. But that doesn’t mean we’re not trying to figure those answers...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Push Comprehensive Hospital COI Policies | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...kind of followed the pretty standard progression as far as not doing much as a freshman, sophomore getting in there a little bit, junior trying to push it a bit more, being more constant, and senior a little more,” Ajayi says. “But you know I value every aspect of everything over the course of my career...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE GAME '08: Growing Up Crimson | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...He’s just gotten a little bit better at everything each year to the point now where, as our guys on defense say, as [senior] Andrew Berry says, he’s a beast,” Murphy says...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE GAME '08: Stepping Out of the Shadow | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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