Word: campaigners
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...Europe's total workforce. German unions threatened mass demonstrations if GM decided to keep Opel, fearing that option would lead to thousands of job losses in Germany. With the green light for Magna, Merkel has received an important psychological boost and can now tell voters on the campaign trail that she managed to save German jobs...
Despite continued support from alumni, Rogers said that it is too early to set a tentative launch date for the University’s long-derailed capital campaign but that Harvard will continue to plan...
Adjusted for inflation, that figure falls short of the average amount raised this decade. The University’s highest-ever total of $651 million ($792 million in today’s dollars) came at the end of its last capital campaign in fiscal year...
After Harvard’s last capital campaign, which raised a record-breaking $2.6 billion ($3.4 billion in today’s dollars)—then the largest in the history of higher education—the University had intended to gear up for another campaign in 2006 or 2007. But the 2006 resignation of then-University President Lawrence H. Summers effectively put those plans on hold...
Lisa Borders, the candidate second to Norwood in most polls, complains that attempts to inject race into the campaign obscures her claim that Norwood is the least-qualified candidate. Borders heads the city council, and was also elected citywide. State Sen. Kasim Reed told a breakfast meeting of black ministers, "One Atlanta is a strong Atlanta. Two Atlantas is not Atlanta at all." Attorney Jesse Spikes also deplored the injection of race into the campaign. A second white candidate, political novice Kyle Keyser, has not shown up in polling...