Word: labors
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...activist mayors, recently hailed by the New Republic as "the Pride of the Cities," has been turning city halls into hothouses of governmental innovation. They are challenging entrenched interests and butting heads with traditional allies in the pursuit of real reform: overhauling the school system in Chicago, reshaping labor-management relations in Philadelphia and privatizing municipal services all over...
What makes these mayors' governmental pragmatism possible is that they have also developed a flexible, post-ideological approach to politics. Cities that once thrived on straight-ticket Democratic machine politics, where labor unions and social-welfare programs were considered untouchable, are led today by some of the nation's most nonpartisan and politically unpredictable politicians. On school vouchers Cleveland's White, an African-American Democrat, is sparring with his city's traditionally Democratic teachers' union and the N.A.A.C.P. Goldsmith alienated his party's establishment by firing patronage appointees who stood in the way of his efforts to privatize. Says...
...addition, HDS has invested in new culinary technology--a Turbochef oven--that will heat food "to perfection" and save labor costs, Condenzio said. Harvard is the first university to use the Turbochef, although hundreds have been sold in New England...
When United Parcel Service (UPS) workers went on strike two weeks ago, they intended to impair the shipping company's business; yet the labor dispute may also hurt students and professors this fall when needed text fail to arrive at academic bookstores across the nation...
Arafat may not see much to gain by bowing to Israel's demands, since he does not trust Netanyahu to proceed with expanding self-rule in return. Says an Arafat confidant: "He basically thinks nothing is possible with Netanyahu." The feeling, of course, is mutual. Even under the Labor Party, which reached the Oslo accords with Arafat, mutual violations of the provisions were common. But then the two leaderships had a solid relationship, providing a base more valuable than the written documents for peace to grow. Now it's gone...