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...Precision Holdings. Eurocast, which is based outside Tunis, builds aircraft parts for GE Aviation and Rolls-Royce, paying its machine operators about $280 a month - a fraction of what equivalent workers would earn in Europe. Over 80% of Tunisia's exports head to Europe, where they will soon be exempt from customs duties, thanks to a free-trade agreement that takes effect in January. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Europeans soak up the sun on Tunisia's beaches every year. "All that is very interesting for foreign investors," says Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz, senior economist at the World Economic Forum...
Questions about the device's safety linger at least partly because there are no official standards for its use. Because it isn't classified as a firearm by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Taser is exempt from federal firearms requirements and regulations. And while the Consumer Product Safety Commission has jurisdiction over the models sold to consumers, it has done no investigations of its safety...
...Comments from student leaders, however, revealed a divide in opinion between those groups that regularly host events on-campus and those who host events at off-campus locales traditionally exempt from the University’s long arm. Harvard’s final clubs, as well as student organizations that own property or regularly host parties off-campus, were reluctant to comment on the matter, citing ongoing talks with the administration. One final club president, who, like others quoted in this article, was granted anonymity to preserve relations with College administrators, says that “Harvard is trying...
...soon as you’re on the water,” Kitovitz adds. “You have to trust them. You have to believe in them. If you stop trusting and listening to the coxswain, you’re screwed.”The coxswain remains exempt from the physical pain of a 2,000-meter race done at full throttle. But the enormous responsibility of steering, coaching, and gauging at which points to call for a strong push from the crew is burdensome enough. Coxswains can’t call timeouts and regroup their crews?...
Gowher Rizvi, the director of the Institute of Government Innovation at the KSG, agreed that donations to Harvard help to promote the public good, in part by funding scholarships for needy students. At the same time, though, he called for greater transparency and accountability of tax-exempt dollars...