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...Modeling their platform after the famous “Contract with America,” the Republicans wrote a “Covenant with Manchester Taxpayers.” Mandatory referendums on town budgets requiring over 3 percent tax increases; “performance-based accounting”—whereby town departments report progress with statistics rather than subjective reports; and a new town ordinance to combat blight were among the Republicans’ promises...
Harvard pays a undisclosed flat rate to Factiva for usage across the University by a specific number of simultaneous users. But because the service is so valuable to business students, HBS has signed a contract with Factiva to provide its students with six additional access “seats...
There are no explicit limits to how many articles a user can download, Petersen said, but Factiva reserves the discretion to terminate a contract at will...
...instructed not to talk to the media from the Fox PR folks.”Rumors of a joint strike between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) East and West (officially separate organizations that have agreed to negotiate together) took hold in early October. Anticipating the end of their contract at the beginning of November, the guilds agreed to vote on the strike. Nine out of ten writers voted in the affirmative. On Oct. 26, representatives of the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) presented the WGA with an offer consisting of, among other things, higher caps for employer...
...student fees, and halting environmentally-unsound campus construction. Protests at Columbia University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst echo events at Harvard last May, when members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) fasted to influence university security guards’ contract negotiations. But while students across the country lobby for different changes and interests, most are met with little or slow change. According to the Daily Californian, several students at UC-Berkeley have been living in an oak grove since Dec. 2 to prevent the construction of an athletic center...