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...It’s the day before Commencement, and we want the families of graduating students and the alumni that are here to know that their education at Harvard is in a state of dire emergency,” said HUCTW member and accounting assistant Phebe Eckfeldt, referring to the University’s budget cuts and subsequent layoffs in the wake of the financial crisis. “We as Harvard workers cannot provide adequate and quality services if we are facing speed-ups because of layoffs, if we have to do the jobs of three people instead...
...according to Damon A. Silvers ’86, one of the leaders of SASC, the committee was dormant in the early 80s during a period of relative quiet in South African resistance. As the situation in South Africa became increasingly dire, however, student support for the end of violence in South African grew rapidly...
Motorola's dire straits required a dramatic reinvention. So over the course of 2008, it slashed costs, replaced nearly 70% of its senior executives, transformed its corporate culture and hired Sanjay Jha, Brown's co-CEO, to resurrect its handset segment. Then it took the turnaround one step further, announcing plans in February to split the corporation into two independent entities...
...anyone on the horizon who particularly worries them, finding both humor and solace in the apparent weaknesses of their rivals. They know, too, that it has been tough to beat an incumbent of late: three out of the previous four Presidents were re-elected after being in dire political shape at moments during their first terms...
...donor conference on Wednesday, the international community pledged more than $5 billion dollars to support Haiti for the next 18 months and almost $10 billion for the next five years. These are enormous figures aimed at transforming the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, which has become even more dire after the catacylsmic Jan. 12 earthquake. But as crucial as the donor news was, many Haitians made homeless by the temblor, like Patrick Nordeuse, 43, have simply tuned out. "I used to listen to the radio after the earthquake, but it would just depress me when I saw nothing...