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...organize the blood drive provide a great service. Giving blood is a great way to help others, and it doesn’t take much time—or, at least, it shouldn’t. The way the drive is currently organized at Harvard, however, places an unreasonable burden on potential donors by requiring two to three hours of time, time that most simply don’t have...
Another legacy of GM's pact with theunion is its crushing pension burden. Having shed so many workers in previous rounds of cost cutting, GM finds itself in a demographic choke hold--paying for the pensions and health care of 400,000 retirees (plus benefits for their dependents)--with a shrinking company. GM's strongest rivals, such as Toyota and Nissan, haven't gone through decades of downsizing and don't bear that lopsided burden. At GM, each U.S. worker's production has to support 2.5 retirees, adding an average of $2,200 in legacy costs to the price...
...THERE SOMETHING EXTRA YOU BRING TO THE JOB AS A WOMAN? Sensitivity to human needs. Maybe that comes from being a mother and interacting with other women, many of whom carry the biggest burden in times of both war and peace. GENDER ASIDE, HOW WILL THE JOHNSON-SIRLEAF PRESIDENCY BE DIFFERENT? AFTER NEARLY 14 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR, UNEMPLOYMENT IS AT 80% AND MANY STILL LIVE IN REFUGEE CAMPS. I'm going to have a rigorous reform agenda in which we will introduce the structural change our country has lacked for so long. The renewal of Liberia means...
...core of France’s lacking economic performance are a high tax burden, a large public service sector, and a rigid economy that is held down by powerful unions and restrictive legislation. Together, the distorted incentives produced by such a system account for the fact that the total number of work hours is only one half of what it would have been if all working-age French were employed. In contrast the labor supply ratio in the U.S. is 20 percent higher, indicating the sharp advantage the American economy has when it comes to its worker productivity...
...don’t feel any identity with Tulane,” said visiting freshman Chelsea M. Grimes. “I just feel like it’s a terrible burden to place on us. We’ve adjusted to college life here at Harvard. Both schools are at fault. They are playing off each other. Both talk about the contract and not about us as people...