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Harvard presented data suggesting that only about 23 percent of its casual employees do not depend on their work at the University as their primary source of income. Just over 19 percent of casual employees, who are employed for less than three months or work less than 17.5 hours a week, earn less than $10 an hour...
...cafe could have claimed "a defense for sex discrimination...on the basis of authenticity," said Bartholet. "The result would depend on the court. That claim has been made before, but it's a pretty narrow defense...
...determined to use his last year in office to establish his legacy. In recent months he has increasingly bypassed Congress, using presidential orders, for instance, to create new national monuments over the complaints of mining interests and off-road-vehicle users, among others. In this case, though, rather than depend on a federal edict to enforce the changes, Clinton will urge each state to implement the revisions over three years. (Hospitals operating Medicare and other government health care programs would be immediately affected, as they are already subject to federal scrutiny). The plan seeks to safeguard patients against...
...that, Naim saw growth possibilities of 2% to 3% in the region. U.S. trade and foreign investment have made Mexico a comparative bright spot, and Brazil has begun to recover from a slump. But the improving prospects depend on continuing prosperity outside the region. "It is wrong that a stock-market crash in the U.S. could benefit emerging markets," said Naim. "When there is a correction, money flows out of the American stock market into bonds--not to emerging markets...
Today we are engulfed by the signal-carrying waves of broadcast radio and TV. Come 2025, we will be engulfed by a "cybersphere" in which billions of "information structures" will drift (invisible but real, like radio waves) bearing the words, sounds and pictures on which our lives depend. That's because the electronic world will have achieved some coherence by 2025. Instead of phone, computer and TV networks side by side, one network will do it all. TVs and phones and computers will all be variations on one theme. Their function will be to tune in these information structures...