Word: facto
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...wealth, survival is hardly an issue. Why then should Harvard emulate for-profits in its treatment of non-professional staff? Any growth of non-standard workers at Harvard and our University's unwillingness to commit to a living wage and standard benefits for all its de jure and de facto employees should be a matter of concern for the entire University community...
...addition to their low pay, they are ineligible for union membership, typically do not receive benefits, lack job security and work fewer hours than they prefer. The third group includes subcontracted workers whose de jure employer is a firm with whom Harvard holds a contract but whose de facto employer is Harvard. Members of the third group, who work in custodial, dining, parking and security jobs at Harvard, earn as little as $7 per hour, according to the living wage campaign...
...only senior in the regular rotation, Birtwell has become the de-facto leader of the staff, helping the younger pitchers develop...
...lost nearly 30% of its value and the stock market about a third of its worth before gaining back 10%. Within days, the central bank was forced to remove the lira's peg to the U.S. dollar. After trading at 687,550 to the dollar on Wednesday, the de facto devaluation took the figure to over 1 million on Friday...
...starting in '48 salvaging World War II rifles in the Egyptian desert. Yet the allure of a knockout punch has always proved his undoing. He envies the F.L.N. triumph over the French in Algeria, Khomeini's thundering revolution in Iran. His Palestine Liberation Organization gambits to become the de facto leader in Jordan and later in Lebanon dragged both countries into civil war. In the Gulf War, he bet on Saddam. This was all well before Arafat was ever on speaking terms with the Israelis, prior to winning the Nobel Peace Prize with Rabin and Shimon Peres for Oslo. That...