Word: facto
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...Jackson emphasized Monday that any decision to lay off workers would be carefully weighed “to make sure it’s the right choice.” But according to labor activist and first-year law student Marissa A. Vahlsing, the school has already initiated de facto staff cuts, asking subcontractors to cut their expenses, which has resulted in job losses and the summer closure of a cafe in the basement of Harkness Commons, the Law School student center. Student labor activists present at a brief private meeting with Jackson last week said that the acting Dean...
...various ensembles, and has enjoyed the opportunity to perform alongside Herbie Hancock, Aaron Goldberg, and other jazz legends. Schacher credits Harvard Universiy Bands director Thomas G. Everett with getting him to “listen to good stuff” and for being his “de facto sugar daddy of the past few years” by arranging performance opportunities. Schachter also used his time as an undergraduate to explore arenas beyond his musical comfort zone. Despite having no prior vocal experience, he joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum as a freshman and has sung with both...
...government ends up in de facto control of two of the largest industries in the country, it probably will not have done taxpayers any favors. Should the economy gets worse, the amount of the government's ownership, and its exposure, will grow as it protects its investment and support of "strategic" industries with more capital. It is not far-fetched to believe that the Fed could end up having a 50% stake in Citigroup...
...their state. Trying to erect a livable society in Somalia would be to confront them with a rival, as we discovered once before. The pirates are not "desperate." They are well fed, crafty and competent. They are the maritime wing of the warlord culture that governs Somalia de facto and does so in such a way that its citizens don't eat. Whatever the root causes of Somali piracy, helping Somalia might be a worthy goal once the pirates are defeated militarily. It is a pointless one until then...
...That late-inning rally that had been Harvard’s calling card of late finally came in the de facto title game—but it came up short...