Word: gained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Antonio shrugs nonchalantly when asked about the 95 cents that he stands to gain if the campaign succeeds. The undergraduate and graduate activists spearheading the Living Wage Campaign are pushing Harvard to require that UNICCO raise the wages of all workers to $10, an amount that has been designated by the city of Cambridge as "the minimum living wage...
...Class of 2000, was the only item on the agenda of yesterday's Faculty meeting that even related to the protests. The Students Against Sweatshops and the Living Wage Campaign seemed like opportunists, jumping on the wave of rage against Harvard's seeming indifference to campus sexual assault to gain support for their causes. There have been a number of small sweatshop rallies in the past year; only by banding with more pressing causes could the sweatshop activists have dreamed to draw such numbers to their cause...
Although the study does not have any direct implications for the treatment of humans, Logan said the experiments would help scientists gain a better understanding of developmental disorders in the human embryo...
...surprising backlash has developed. For starters, sporting a big dividend yield on turn-of-the-millennium Wall Street is like going to school with a KICK ME sign stuck to your back. You'll probably get pummeled. Investors want growth and capital gain. Period. That's apparent in today's fury to own money-losing, dividendless Internet and other tech stocks. Meanwhile, there is some question whether the rash of REITs will smooth the real estate cycle as advertised. The theory goes like this: with many real estate companies dependent on stock sales to fund projects, Wall Street becomes...
...providing equal opportunities for academic excellence has the responsibility to follow through on that commitment. This doesn't preempt debate on the different perspectives of men and women. It does, however, forbid the exclusion of either six from a course completely within the academic sphere, designed purely for the gain of knowledge...