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Hollywood once believed in the division of labor: writers wrote, and directors directed. Sturges, who did both with ease, changed all that in a whirlwind few years (1940-44) at Paramount, where he auteured an incredible eight films--amazing in their quantity and quality. Seven of those comedies (all but The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) are amassed here as a reminder of how fast, reckless and smart movies can be. Sturges' social satire fizzes in The Great McGinty and Hail the Conquering Hero. But the pearl is The Lady Eve, with con artiste Barbara Stanwyck seducing naive Henry Fonda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 DVD Sets To Get | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...previous employer, America West, into the first successful low-fare hub-and-spoke carrier. A team player, Parker passed up a bonus this March. The merger of America West and US Airways, which he oversaw, has been a success. US Airways used to spend 40% of its revenue on labor; now that figure is 17%, according to AirlineForecasts. Significant cost cutting and dropping unprofitable routes have helped the merged America West--US Airways company trim business fares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now Arriving: Mergers | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

Mayer also highlighted the fact that the funds allocated to HUDS by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) in recent years have not kept pace with increased costs. In addition, FAS set HUDS’s budget for this year prior to the completion of labor union negotiations and spikes in fuel costs...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dining Changes Might Be On The Table | 11/17/2006 | See Source »

...Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. He and his lieutenants have made it clear that they intend to focus their campaign on clamping down on immigration and doing more to integrate foreigners. But aside from that they have announced a clutch of new policies meant to lessen the tax burden, loosen up labor rules, and set free the largely frustrated entrepreneurial spirit of the French people. Sarkozy's talk of a "rupture" with the past has engendered plenty of ill will among the pro-Chirac traditionalists of his party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). But there is scant prospect that anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Royal Win the French Crown? | 11/17/2006 | See Source »

...Museum Guards Union. But the University gradually outsourced its guards because of financial losses, a process completed in 2004. To fill the void, Harvard subcontracted with Security Services Incorporated—now AlliedBarton—which did not permit its Harvard employees to unionize.Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) has been pressuring the University and AlliedBarton to accept unionization for over two years, according to Adaner Usmani ’08, a SLAM member.“We don’t have any clout in Allied, we’re not shareholders...

Author: By Stephanie S. Garlow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Guards, Union in Sight | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

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