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...Last week, Gettelfinger agreed to defer the automakers' scheduled payment to the voluntary employee benefit associations, or VEBAs, that is due next year. The VEBAs were created to help finance health care for retired workers. "This was a huge gamble for Gettelfinger," says Shaiken. Gettelfinger also suspended the controversial jobs bank, cutting off payments to some 3,600 workers idled by plant closings at the three companies. According to the local's website, the demand for board representation was linked to these concessions...
...season 4-0. While last season’s squad was recovering from the loss of two of its top players, this year Harvard lost no seniors to graduation and has maintained a strong core from last season. “I feel really comfortable in our team. A huge base from last year is together and we have built relationships with each other.” said junior captain No. 7 Johanna Snyder. “Last year was more of a rebuilding year since we had lost two of our top players. This year, I think we have...
...Many huge crowds passed into stores without incident on Black Friday. "Disney World does this every day," notes Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey. "People aren't inherently interested in hurting each other." But managing crowds is not something people do well without knowledge and training. Mulvey says that his department met with local retailers, including Wal-Mart, two weeks before Black Friday to remind them that they needed to provide their own security. "We patrol the parking lot, the exteriors, but each individual store is responsible for their own security," says Det. Sgt. Anthony Repalone...
...food society had been turned down because the deans assumed a lack of interest on campus.At the Freshman Activities Fair the following fall, the nascent organization was flooded with nearly 600 prospective members. “People were apparently just begging for something to fill this really huge niche,” Rinzler says.Barbara Haber, food historian and former Curator of Books at the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library, tried to address this interest in the culinary arts when she developed a cookbook collection in the early 1990s. “When I started at the library...
...ranked No. 5 in the nation, garnering a first-place vote. “This weekend is big for us,” co-captain Jimmy Fraser said. “We’re a .500 team right now, and in terms of national rankings it could be huge for us.” Thanks to the Crimson’s 4-0-0 home record this season, recent history would suggest that conditions are favorable for Harvard as it enters this critical series against an opponent that is tied for seventh in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Building...