Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Discussing the A.D. and Owl clubs, Goldschmidsaid. "I wouldn't doubt that they'll be open againnext year...
There is no doubt that UNITE has had a hand in generating student awareness of the issue. Starting in 1997, UNITE sleuths began tipping off students to the locations of alleged sweatshop factories. Since then, UNITE spokeswoman Jo-Ann Mort says, it has merely "given [the students] moral support." Lately that support has included participating in--and paying for--regular conference calls among student leaders on different campuses and coaching students over the phone during sit-ins. In February the union sent two sweatshop workers on a five-campus tour to spur greater interest in the cause. Though many student...
While I expect that most Harvard students have experienced firsthand the complexities involved in such administrative decisions as admissions and dorm assignments for an extraordinarily diverse student body, I doubt that many have considered the range of factors that must inform decisions about compensation for Harvard's employees. Harvard employs more than 14,000 individuals to perform an enormous range of tasks. They work for different parts of the University and they live in cities and towns throughout the Boston area, in other parts of the country and in other parts of the world. In any given week, there...
Alas, the NRDC report may kill this venerable tradition. If so, the cultural impact should not be underestimated. The bottled water class will find new absurdities to embrace, no doubt. But it will be hard to find a more perfect symbol of decadent consumerism as bottled water, unless someone starts selling...
...real time. Further down the road could be a host of other emotion-measuring computer systems, ranging from smart ATMs that can shut down if they spot a suspicious patron to television systems that can determine if a finger-wagging politician is telling the truth. Privacy advocates will no doubt have much to say about all this, none of it good, but the technology may nonetheless be on the way. "You can be sure it's coming," Sejnowski says flatly. Whether humanity is ready for it is another question entirely...