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Romeo is no exception. Over 1,000 workers who clean and cook and guard and serve at Harvard earn less than their student counterparts, despite seniority. Dishwashers paying for medicine, groceries and baby formula are making less then students looking for beer and book money. Sixty-year-old janitors for whom sanitation is a career are making less than 18-year-olds for whom Dorm Crew will appear under "other activities" on their resumes at best...

Author: By Alexander T., NGUYEN | Title: A Thousand Caged Birds | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Gyorffy bested Michigan's Nicole Forrester by just 3 cm to earn second place with a jump...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gyorffy Takes Second at NCAAs | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Notching yet another prestigious achievement atthe meet, Wriede outperformed Barnes by a singlepoint to earn the Harold Ulan Award for careerscoring champion, which recognizes the senior withthe most cumulative points over four years...

Author: By Christine Haggerty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Swimming Rolls to Fourth Straight Title | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Others, who insist that you must "earn your turns"--that is, ascend mountains on a pair of skis that have synthetic skins attached to the base for traction--find their own backcountry or hire guides. Jean Pavillard, a Swiss-born mountain guide whose Colorado tour service, Adventures to the Edge, leads such folks as trial lawyers and surgeons into avalanche country (up to $2,800 for a five-day group trek), says his clients are "addicted to risk management." He leads them into the back, where they are supposed to apply the three rules they follow in their own work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steep, Deep and Deadly | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...solved a problem that he created. He starved the world of dollar liquidity from November 1996 onward, as he watched the price of gold fall from $383 to $285. Ignoring this sure sign of monetary deflation, Greenspan caused a crisis in every country that relies on commodity exports to earn a living. JUDE T. WANNISKI, PRESIDENT Polyconomics Inc. Morristown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 8, 1999 | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

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