Word: casualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explanation was incredibly casual. "I don't like Mondays," Brenda Spencer, 16, told reporters by telephone as she held off San Diego police for six hours. But who was she trying to kill as she repeatedly fired a .22-cal. rifle at Cleveland Elementary School from her home across the street? "No one in particular. I kind of like the red and blue jackets." While Brenda chatted on the telephone, the terrified pupils and teachers huddled on the floor of the bullet-sprayed school. Principal Burton Wragg and Custodian Michael Suchar were both slain by the gunfire at the school...
...WORLD NEWS TONIGHT Rating [3 1/2 missiles] While Jane Clayson sports the J. Crew look in Macedonia, her colleague Morton Dean blends in with the natives by dressing urban casual. The people in Belgrade seem to like this old-school, man-on-the-street reporter; so we do too. VIEWERS: 9.5 million...
Dank and labyrinthine, the pathways between suites in the Leverett Towers thwart eager notebook-sharers and casual drop-ins. The cave-like atmosphere promises to reveal J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired Hobbits behind the large, heavy room doors. Lost in the darkness? Better hope that you're on an even-numbered floor...
...Living Wage Campaign does not object to the existence of the task force. We appreciate its focus on the situation of the "contingent workforce" of casual and sub-contracted employees. Furthermore, we look forward to any conclusions it might reach, since our own research committee has discovered the difficulty of attaining accurate and comprehensive labor statistics from Harvard. But we have insisted all along that the task force must decide how, not whether, to implement the living wage, and the provost made clear in our recent meeting that the task force has no such charge. We left the meeting cognizant...
...this issue, weaving together careful catch-phrases while avoiding the clear moral imperative of a living wage. Prominent in their argument is "total compensation"--the strange notion that workers should not demand a wage sufficient to live if they receive some package of benefits and time off. But most casual and subcontracted workers do not receive "total compensation" packages. Perhaps Harvard would do well to supplement a living wage with these packages, so its workers and their families could live well above the poverty line. Benefits and a living wage do not have to be mutually exclusive...