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...plant. The company has also posted an on-site representative at Red River to oversee repair work on transmissions for BAE's Bradley. Working together, the BAE--Red River team increased output from 1.5 to 4 units per shift. In many Army facilities, the physical work, or "touch labor," is done by military staff, "but the crucial technical support is private industry," says Griffin of the Army Matériel Command. There are more than 300 such partnerships throughout the Army, and Griffin says they accounted for $225 million in cost savings last year alone...
...will need millions of new workers to keep its economy chugging. China could easily supply them. But Russia, says Guan Guihai, associate dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, "remains concerned that the Chinese population could overtake the Russian population in the border regions if labor policies were changed, and that would threaten national security." He says Russia gets nervous if China "sends as much as an economic research mission to one of the Central Asian countries." A marriage this may be, but it is one between porcupines. The Middle East is another area where Moscow...
...said that her work is not done. Next year, her office will conduct a survey of the entire Harvard faculty, collecting data that will allow a thorough examination of the relationship between gender or ethnicity and differences in factors such as salaries and chair appointments.“We labor under no delusion that the initiatives to date—in part or in whole—fully address our institutional issues, or solve the work-life dilemmas our faculty, staff and students face every day,” Hammonds wrote in the report.—Staff writer Natalie...
...Craig Orfield, a Republican spokesman for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, defended the increases to the Times by pointing out that Congress has actually increased student loan funding, from $52 billion in 2004 to $62 billion this year. He argued that the increases in interest rates were necessary to reduce the federal budget deficit...
...Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., urged students to consolidate their loans in a statement last month, even as he lamented the hikes. The ranking Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Kennedy also released a report earlier this week with the committee’s other Democrats showing that tuition has risen faster than federal education grants. He introduced a bill on Wednesday that would reduce interest rates on student loans and increase need-based grants...