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...Administration: In exchange for raising the pay of directly-hired employees, the University will gain time to negotiate agreements with other workers, maintaining a degree of control it could lose if the protest goes further. On Wednesday Harvard dining hall workers voted to authorize a strike, suggesting that the situation will become trickier the longer the administration holds out. Furthermore, having held firm for more than two weeks, the administration can negotiate and remain secure in the knowledge that it is not likely to see future sit-ins, from current protesters or others. Having gained a significant change in wage...
...they probably are.) Even with the short-term bump in the networks' ratings compared with cable that followed "Millionaire," the overall trend is not in favor of the networks, which have steadily lost share to the rest of the zillion-channel universe, with no reason to expect to gain much back...
...students turn away from these consulting and investment banking firms, recruiters from other industries might gain more success with Harvard students...
Every April, the NHL commences the fiercest championship tournament in all of professional sports. Game in and game out players repeatedly put their bodies on the line for sixty minutes—and usually beyond—in order to gain the most marginal of advantages to advance their team to the next round...
...European reaction has been mostly deadpan, welcoming President Bush's emphasis on consultation but avoiding outright condemnation of the proposal despite widespread skepticism. After all, Europe has little to gain by publicly challenging a plan that President Bush has made clear will go ahead regardless. But the major fear on the continent that scrapping the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty takes away the foundation of all subsequent arms-control agreements between Washington and Moscow, removing a key regulatory mechanism on the nuclear balance and potentially prompting an arms race. Europe may be less worried about the details of the missile...