Word: labors
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...appointments also signal some hope that two of the remaining pilgrims to Washington will someday return. Harvard allows professors to take leaves of up to two years for outside positions, as professors Lawrence F. Katz (chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor) and David M. Cutler (chief health economist at the Council of Economic Advisers...
Could we now expect Lawrence H. Summers, who was one of Harvard's leading public finance professors before taking a series of jobs that led to him being appointed deputy secretary of the Treasury, to someday return here to teach? How about Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich? Harvard's international reputation would not suffer from the homecoming of these other notables...
...living in is all about," Clinton told children at Abraham Lincoln Middle School in Selma. To others who would listen, he added: "Education is not supposed to be a partisan political football, and it should not be when Congress returns." TIME's Michael Duffy says presidents have often used Labor Day weekend to clarify their legislative priorities and to set the tone for their re-election campaigns. Besides, Duffy adds, "Clinton can't win in '96 without California's 52 electoral votes...
...Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. "Either this is a prelude to a prolonged period of violence, or this is the endgame of the newspaper guild," reports Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "But it really looks like its the latter. As much as this is a pro-labor town, it's even more a pro-law town, and these strikers weren't going against the company today, they were going against the police. Besides, he says, "the newspaper guild has broken ranks -- about 70 percent of the influential writers and columnists have already returned -- and the advertisers are starting...
...sexual and professional misconduct. The Oregon Republican said he chose this course when the Senate Ethics Committee "changed the rules in the middle of the game" by reopening the investigation to consider two new complaints. The Ethics Committee will consider Packwood's request when it reconvenes after Labor...