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Lichten suggested that students keep windows closed when the heat is on, turn off lights, computer monitors, and computers when not being used, and take shorter showers...
...wage competition isn't the only culprit. The United Farm Workers, a 27,000-member union in California, says workers are simply looking for better working conditions; this summer several California farm workers died from heat-related illness. A crackdown on illegal immigration by U.S. Border Patrol and vigilantes called "Minutemen" is also choking the supply of new workers...
Turning up the heat on Time Warner has risks. It could alienate shareholders Icahn will need if, as promised, he aims for a seat on the board next year. "I think Parsons has done a very good job," says Henry Berghoef, partner at Harris Associates, which holds $1.3 billion of Time Warner stock. Others see Icahn's criticism of Time Warner as playing Monday-morning quarterback. "It's hard to pick a date and say this is the way things should have gone," says James Goss, media analyst at Barrington Research. "Things were evolving." Then, paying off debt was critical...
...granted, when I attended services at St. Mary’s it was the middle of a very hot summer, and the usual ranks of worshippers might have been depleted by the heat, the humidity, and the lurid call of more temperate climes. Nevertheless, the service I went to, supposedly the busiest of the morning on a perfectly beautiful day, had no more than one hundred attendees. One hundred attendees in a space built for—and I’m sure previously well used by—well over a thousand. And of those hundred souls, no more...
...rays beat down through the sunroof, baking the black, fake leather car seats. I wrapped the heavy humidity around me, the steam that fogged sunglasses and suffocated tourists and made night feel like day, the heat that stewed up corruption and poverty and gunshots and death, murders tallied...