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...future hires would earn wages comparable to those paid in Toyota's U.S. factories. When those givebacks are added to an earlier surrender of the notorious "jobs bank" - which paid laid-off autoworkers for doing nothing - clearly the UAW's once heavenly bed has lost much of its fluff. What remains is the VEBA, the multibillion-dollar trust fund designed to protect a key element of the membership's fabled retirement benefits - which the union refers to as deferred wages. As in the Chrysler deal, the UAW agreed to trade a chunk of the cash GM owed the VEBA...
...Perfect Fifths” becomes a meta-fiction, and even its narrative point of view serves the themes of memory and revision. If it is chick-lit, it stretches the genre’s limits, keeping the best of its readability and trading fluff for wit.—Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached at clshover@fas.harvard.edu...
...Finally, Harvard should cut its wasteful internal public relations division. The Harvard Gazette and the other fluff put out by the Harvard Office of Communications, like The Yard, ought to be axed on both financial and environmental grounds. The publications and their staffs cost a few million dollars each year. Externally, they do nothing to strengthen Harvard’s brand. Internally, they are rightfully regarded as propaganda...
...point in lying as far as I can see. She can see as far as I can, or at least as far as the dining room past the set of glass doors, where three people are lying happily in a pile of pillow fluff.“I’m Alex, by the way,” I say. “I know,” she smiles, deep rings under her eyes that look like mascara bleeding into pools of exhaustion. “You were here for the Oscars last year, remember? We ordered Indian take...
...some, fellow classmates who say, “O.M.G. I love your accent!”But for freshman tennis star and proud Aussie Holly Cao, the No. 4 singles player on the Crimson women’s tennis team, the biggest challenge came in the form of white fluff.“I mean I’ve never seen snow before I came [to Harvard],” Cao explained. “I’m from Sydney, and it’s always warm, always sunny. I came here and I see all of this snow...