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...different unions and job types, crossing language barriers. But the unions on strike are indeed involved in similar fights for respect and recognition from a school intent to nickel and dime its employees. This coalition of workers, along with the support of students and the community, poses a powerful impetus for change among Yale’s administration...
Part of the answer rests in the new Homeland Security Department itself, the impetus behind the biggest reorganization of the Federal Government in a half-century. The new department, first proposed by the President last July, aims to bring 22 agencies and 175,000 employees, from border agents to biologists, under a single bureaucratic roof--and to do it before al-Qaeda tries to mount another attack. But the department is only beginning to pick up momentum. Since it opened its doors Jan. 24, only three out of a possible 23 appointees to the new department have received confirmation; most...
Burgard said his most pressing argument for preregistration was that it would serve as an impetus for students to make academic plans ahead of time...
ABHW President Allana N. Jackson ’03 said the issues raised on the BSA, BMF and ABHW e-mail lists were the impetus for the board’s decision...
...forehead and killed. Released after four years in jail, Said says he made a life for himself, working as a joiner. He dreamed of happy years to come, of marriage and family: "The freedom which had smiled at me on the day of my release was an impetus for my will to live and my ambition." But in 1997, he says, the minibus taking him to work in Haifa was strafed by Israeli soldiers; bullets hit him in the legs, seriously wounding him. Said's disillusionment was complete. "We were and are begrudged [the right] to lead a more...