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...Staff levels many accurate criticisms against Edison Schools, Inc. However, contracting Edison to run the district does not surrender democratic control; rather it puts control of the schools in the hands of those who care more for the children than their own jobs. Indeed, hiring Edison to run the schools will be even more democratic—and effective—than the present system. The terms of the contract will be decided in a debate, a one-time deliberative format likely to produce a decision with which a majority of parents participate and agree. Gone will be the inefficiency...
When the members of Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) proposed their parity plan, they were aware that Harvard’s superior bargaining power, if left unchecked, could easily push workers’ wages back down to unacceptable levels. In order to “ensure that a threatened bargaining impasse is not used to lower the real value of the parity wage,” HCECP included an anti-union busting clause that “the parity wage will be adjusted upward annually by the rate of increase of the U.S. consumer price index?...
Though the company survived the recent economic downturn due to deals such as the WB contract, Trowbridge says it hasn’t been smooth sailing. “It’s been like the baptism by fire starting up a company,” he says, but things are looking up. As for the future, Trowbridge says he hopes the company will be “one of the prominent wireless market services companies around. We don’t have to be huge, but we want to be profitable.” He describes the wireless phone...
...best sense. It captures Chick's coarse appeal as well as her inability to conquer the impulses that make her irresistible to men - for her, anatomy is destiny. The part should have made her a star, and MGM did sign her to a five-year contract, but her only other prominent Hollywood role was as a world-weary hotelkeeper in the 1931 "Safe in Hell." She made three films in Britain, including "Sanders of the River" with Robeson, before returning to a featured part in the Ralph Cooper "Gang Smashers." In the 40s she had one decent Hollywood role...
...Koran, marriage is not a sacrament, it’s a social contract,” Asani said...