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...hours per week, or from 20 hours per week to 17.5 hours per week. Zak M. Gingo '98, director of facilities maintenance and operations for the FAS Office of Physical Resources, said he did not have the total custodial cost figures available. But he said the University made an effort to avoid layoffs in the budget cutting process, and estimated that the hours reductions helped save between 30 and 50 jobs.But Daniel Becker, the Service Employees International Union Local 615 organizer for the janitors, said that the changes effectively represented a one-eighth pay cut for the workers while creating...
...Home visits have been so popular with conservatives that the idea kept coming up during conversations White House aides hosted with pro-life advocates earlier this year in an effort to find common ground on abortion. And when Democratic Reps. Tim Ryan and Rosa DeLauro drafted the abortion reduction bill they introduced last month, they specifically included funding for home nurse visits as a way of accommodating pro-life preferences for policies that support women who decide to give birth instead of having abortions...
...Wolf said that he has been surprised by the blog frenzy. "I think it's very easy to be critical," he said. "It requires no effort and no thinking." Later, he said that "the wave of interest has just been really fun," and that the publicity has been good for the brand. He said that a line of prep clothing bearing a "Harvard Yard" name did not run the risk of being elitist. "I think it would be aspirational," he said. When asked about student criticisms, he said that the line "is not geared for students, and is not being...
...From a business perspective, Stilz said that he supports the effort to raise more money for undergraduate financial aid. "If it hurts our image, it hurts our image," he said. "The important thing is that Harvard continues to make the commitment we have to offering need-based financial aid for all students. It would be different if the money were just going to the endowment, but the fact that the money is going to go to financial aid I think justifies it." But Stilz cautioned that the financial contribution would only justify the deal if it were large: "$1 million...
While Obama lauded his selections as "agents of change," each President has adopted different criteria for making his picks. Before JFK's 1963 order, the award, which was originally established by President Harry Truman in 1945, was given mostly to non-American allies who had helped in the war effort. JFK chose people from all walks of life but was assassinated before he could present his first round of medals. President Lyndon Johnson handed out the awards to 31 people in JFK's stead and honored his predecessor with a posthumous medal as well...