Word: cio
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This election will be won on the ground," says Mary Gutierrez, communications director of the L.A. County AFL-CIO. But Republican insiders, such as former State Senator Jim Brulte, are equally confident that the "tens of millions" their party is spending to get out the vote will counteract all that. Furthermore, Brulte says, thanks to Schwarzenegger the Golden State G.O.P. isn't dispirited and its roster of candidates in down-ticket races is so diverse that "there's something for every Republican to like...
...chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, announced last week that the company’s higher education division just had its best ever back-to-school quarter, and Harvard is part of the trend. According to Daniel D. Moriarty, the University’s chief information officer (CIO), personal purchases of Macintosh computers at Harvard are up 30 percent from last year, while sales of IBM Lenovo machines have more or less flat-lined. Moriarty added that Harvard is one of Apple’s largest educational re-sellers. He said that several years ago, Apple sales were lagging...
...also learned a thing or two since 2004 about bringing their voters to the polls. Where an anti-gay-marriage initiative energized religious groups in 2004, labor says its forces are seeing the same effect from a measure this year that would raise the state minimum wage. Ohio AFL-CIO President William Burga says his organizers are targeting the 496,000 union "drop-off voters," who show up for presidential years but not in midterm elections. Meanwhile, he says, union operatives in the field are sensing a distinct lack of enthusiasm on the other side, particularly among religious voters. "They...
...officials. Further waves of violence followed, amid accusations that police reprisals were responsible for many casualties. Not surprisingly, the mayhem has become a hot issue in elections scheduled for Oct. 1, when Brazilians vote for their President as well as state and other federal leaders. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a veteran left-wing labor leader, looks set for a second term. Ferréz, a prominent local writer whose latest novel, In São Paulo Nobody Is Innocent, was published last month, treats the prospect with guarded pleasure at best. "Lula opened a dialogue with...
...trailer homes but quality custom-builts, a modern-day version of the old Sears catalog home. KB Homes is already using similar technology, and why couldn't New Orleans, he wonders, attract modular homebuilders to churn out a new generation of affordable housing for the nation? The AFL-CIO investment fund in Washington, notes Kroloff, is looking to pour $1 billion into New Orleans...