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Sampson said the group plans to spend much of the upcoming academic year exploring possible focal points for investigation. Grosz said in the press release that she hopes that the initiative will not only expand the possibilities for work at Radcliffe, but that it will also benefit projects across the University...
...benefit gap continues to expand in part because governments face a steady ramping up of collective bargaining demands. "Decisions about benefits changes can't be made instantaneously as they can be in the private sector," says Blaine Bos, a consultant for Mercer based in Minneapolis, Minn. Instead, government agencies have to battle bit by bit for benefit trims that employees can collectively counter by marshaling great passion. In 2005 when California's Governor Schwarzenegger tried to radically reform the state's expensive pension plan, he met a firestorm of protest from unions, and ultimately backed down...
...Citi's $780 billion in bank deposits and 200 million customers. Goldman recently converted to a bank holding company and plans to start attracting bank deposits on its own. But opening up branches is costly. Buying Citi, even with its troubled assets, could be cheaper way for Goldman to expand...
...certain percentage of U.S. electricity to come from alternative sources. (More than 20 states already have similar standards, but a national one would be tricky, given that utility regulation in the U.S. is localized.) Green energy leaders would also like to see an executive order that would greatly expand the federal government's procurement of renewable energy - a smart idea, easily doable - plus a major initiative to update and smarten the nation's aging, overworked electrical grid. That last item is a necessity, if the country has any hope of scaling up alternatives. A report published...
...tools for her Luo teachers, causing Hoy to reexamine her views on technology’s place in Luo pottery. “It’s a hard question,” Hoy said. “Do you share your methods and help to expand their repertoire, or do you keep those things from them to maintain the tradition?” Until Hoy began taking pottery lessons from her Luo teachers, pottery had taken a back seat to agriculture in their lives. “When I met them, they had pretty much stopped making pots...