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College officials have said that bridging the gap between freshmen and upperclassmen in the Houses might improve advising, a concern in the ongoing Curricular Review...
...She’s closed the gap through the summer and worked real hard,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “We’ve got to figure out who the number one goalie is, or else we’ve got two number ones. [Vitt] played great tonight...
...because they necessarily agreed with his positions on the tax code and social security. These issues were marginalized during the campaigns and the debates, which focused on health care, education, the war on terror, social issues and Iraq. Bush must reach across party lines and begin bridging the gap between the left and the right before he begins implementing what looks like a very conservative and divisive domestic policy agenda...
...workers an average wage of $12 an hour, plus benefits, compared with 40 an hour for a worker in mainland China, where 76% of U.S. athletic footwear originates. The tax breaks Congress just passed for U.S. companies to keep manufacturing jobs at home amount to chump change given that gap. Overall, the U.S. footwear industry has shed nearly 200,000 jobs since the early 1970s, leaving fewer than 21,000. More to the point: What teenager clamoring for Air Jordans really cares where the shoe is stitched...
...filling special orders for hard-to-find sizes and widths and give the company more flexibility to help out independent retailers--a lucrative niche. The firm has a reputation "as the easiest company to do business with," according to the trade publication Sporting Goods Investor. As for the wage gap, Davis says it's overblown. All his U.S. plants are highly automated, with bar-coded parts and computerized stitching and embroidery machines, resulting in about 25 minutes of manual labor to produce a pair of shoes versus more than four hours in a less automated Asian plant...