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...people shying away from eating our product over fear," C. Larry Pope, CEO of Smithfield Foods, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch on May 5. The National Pork Producers Council estimated that between April 24 and May 1 - the most frenzied days of the H1N1 outbreak so far - the disease cost the pork industry $7.2 million...
...month job. Though resident deans said College administrators have been considering these proposed changes since February, strong opposition from students and House administrators to amending the position mounted this week, amid Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith’s announcement on Monday of sweeping cost-cutting measures across the College. House Masters met with College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and University President Drew G. Faust last week to discuss specific budget cuts in the Houses, according to Adams House Master John G. “Sean” Palfrey ’67. Palfrey said...
Other students looked internationally for approaches to cost-cutting. More command and control, please...
...computer clinic’s weekend hours, Selsby told The Crimson that the cuts in weekend hours did not result from FAS’s economic woes. He said that the UA program remained high among FAS IT’s priorities as the department considered the program a cost-saving measure in itself and that FAS IT might actually see a trend of increased student employment as a result of the economic crisis. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...approach therefore is not to smack down credit-card companies for high interest rates but rather to hold everyone to the original agreement about how much credit will cost. "Virtually no other contract in this country allows a business to change the terms of an agreement once a purchase has been made," says Travis Plunkett of the Consumer Federation of America. "That's the main issue." (One Senator suggested an interest-rate cap, but that was shot down...