Word: experts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard brass are expert about things like how to construct buildings to increase faculty interaction, how to promote increased financial aid for graduate students, how to recruit brilliant faculty members. It's their...
...robust 3.2% last year, the best showing since 1964, while paychecks got smaller. In inflation-adjusted dollars, average weekly wages have fallen from $272 10 years ago to $254 today. Adding insult to injury, the gap between executive compensation and ordinary pay has been rapidly widening. According to compensation expert Graef Crystal, the earnings of chief executive officers of major corporations have zoomed from 33 times the average income of U.S. workers two decades ago to 157 times the average today. (Japanese and German CEOs typically earn no more than 25 times what the average worker makes...
...recent years in work places untroubled by foreign competition. While government employees were virtually non-union in 1946, 37% of the country's 6.6 million public workers are card-carrying members today. "You don't import your government from Hong Kong, do you?" says Daniel Mitchell, a labor expert at UCLA. Among private- sector unions, the Service Employees' International, whose membership includes janitors and hospital orderlies, has grown from 625,000 in 1980 to more than 1 million. While that growth reflects intensive union efforts, organizer Andy Stern also credits the increases to the fact that the jobs...
...settings, was meticulously correct, meeting the principle Hillary Rodham Clinton posited to Historic Preservation magazine: "Preservation and restoration, not redecoration . . . furthering the historic mission of the house." Duly noted. But to some eyes, the strong colors and elaborate draperies seem a tad overwrought. Even an approving White House expert admits that "it takes a little time getting used...
Anthony G. Evans, a materials science expert, has accepted a tenure offer in the Division of Applied Sciences, department officials said yesterday...