Word: drags
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...Kawahara, president of the 60,000-strong Nihon Careservice Craft Union, says his industry isn't ready to manage foreign manpower, especially when problems like low pay and overly demanding labor need to be solved first. "We've been working to improve the work conditions," says Kawahara. "This can drag us down. Japanese could lose jobs...
...November study from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) titled "Why Baby Boomers Will Need to Work Longer" finds that having a workforce that continues a few years beyond the traditional retirement age is the only way for boomers to prevent a decline in their standard of living and not drag down U.S. economic growth. The report estimates that a two-year increase in the median retirement age - from 62.6 to 64.1 over the next decade - would add nearly $13 trillion to real U.S. GDP during the next 30 years while reducing by half the number of boomers who would find...
...black dress and long black wig, Omar M. Abdelsamad ’09 unleashed his alter ego—a tall woman named “Cookie.” Together with Ryan S. Nolan ’09 (aka “Candy”), the drag queens became the oh-so-yummy emcees of Adams House Drag Night. You go, girls. In all its hilarity, Drag Night was founded on serious origins. Adams Social Co-Chair Sean P. Bala ’09 says that it stems from opposition to “a series of riots against...
First, the makeup of the Senate needs to be determined. That could drag out. As of now, the Democrats have 56 seats. A 57th is possible if Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkeley's apparent slim victory of a few thousand votes holds up against any procedural challenge incumbent Gordon Smith throws against him. And the Democrats could conceivably pick up more. Republican Saxby Chambliss, though he won a plurality of votes on Tuesday, faces a runoff in Georgia on Dec. 2. In Minnesota, the recount of the nearly tied Senate race will go into December at least, to determine whether...
JOHN MCCAIN'S eight houses: a real drag in this economy...