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...operations in the Delta is due largely to sabotage?is still struggling to regain the locals' trust. Shell has a new strategy. After seeing millions of dollars from its contributions to development funds vanish in the hands of corrupt officials, Shell last month signed a four-year contract with village leaders that puts $7.7 million at their direct disposal. There is no shortage of worthy causes. The region is plagued by malaria and AIDS, and does not have enough schools or health clinics. "We have to do our part," says Emanuel Etomi, who heads Shell's sustainable-development unit...
...Students can either pay $10 to have a photo taken by McGrath Studios, which has a contract with the yearbook, or opt to send in their own photos...
...Harvard community’s firm commitment to fighting grade inflation.)Dignity and respect for workers: 4 out of 10. The administration made some progress in its moral comprehension as it was schooled this fall by an alliance of janitors and students. Our lowest-paid workers won a new contract in November, featuring a five-dollar raise over the next few years from this exceedingly loaded institution we call our own. But it wasn’t quite enough. Many janitors still won’t get to see their families much, because administrators couldn’t keep their...
...over the 1.5% of their salary that they would have had to contribute toward their own health care, especially since those payments could rise with increasing health care costs in the future. In the end, a demoralized Toussaint, who spent the last month campaigning vigorously in support of the contract, blamed the defeat Friday on a cabal of outside meddlers and internal enemies who peddled ?downright lies? to the membership...
...time for New Yorkers to dust off their commuting sneakers? Not yet. Transit workers are driving, cleaning and conducting without a contract, but a renewed strike is still unlikely. The vote showed that the TWU is a house divided, and their discord may force them into binding arbitration with the MTA. For his part, Toussaint would only say that he?s ready to "go back to the drawing board...