Word: labors
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...that weren't enough, PUCC, instead of advocating that the council build on a series of small steps to restore student confidence in the council, instead pushes for ridiculously sweeping powers, such as student input into tenure decisions, labor relations and University divestiture from objectionable companies...
...exactly does Sen. Nancy L. Kassebaum think she is? The Kansas Republican who is leading the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee's crusade to cut financial aid could soon become the Wicked Witch of the West to many students. We'd like to throw a little dirty dish water on this latest attack on government funding for education...
...Robin Hoods in reverse. Having whacked school lunch programs and the working poor, they have to be careful about stroking the FORTUNE 500 too enthusiastically. Freshman Representative Mark Souder returned to Washington bearing the news that in his Indiana district voters were "starting to wonder, Did we swap Big Labor and Big Government for Big Business? New suits, maybe...
...youth. In 1945, my physician father and I were taken by the Soviet NKVD (more recently the KGB) from our home in Budapest, Hungary, and, though innocent, accused of espionage. (After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the charges were dropped.) We were shipped to the labor camps (Gulag) of the dreaded Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia, where I spent eight years between life and death. At one point, I weighed 85 lbs., and only a miracle saved me from joining those wooden crosses. My father's body is buried there, and it is quite possible that one of those...
...This year's fellows reflect the Institute's commitment to bring together a cross-disciplinary group--including scholars, journalists, government officials and business and labor leaders--in order to shape policy on important social, economic and political issues," said Paula M. Rayman, director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute, in a press release...