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...efforts. Late last year it presented an ambitious National Reform Program that promises, among other things, an improvement to Spain's mediocre higher-education system and a doubling of the country's expenditures for research and development. The government wants to encourage flexibility in Spain's overly segmented labor market and encourage mobility by getting more Spaniards to rent instead of buy. "We need to promote rentals, not only because of the high prices of homes and high levels of mortgage debt, but because there is so much unoccupied housing, which the government sees as 'anti-economic,'" says Salvador Arancibia...
...breakthrough in glowing terms. “In a marathon session yesterday, Local 26 Dining Hall Workers won the best contract in the history of our union at Harvard University!” he wrote. Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, a leader of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which collected over 1,300 signatures last month in a campaign on behalf of dining hall workers, said the group had expected more resistance from the University and had not anticipated a deal to be reached until June 19. The group’s chief demand—that workers...
...tenure lasting beyond July 1, 2007 would be “really quite exceptional.”Verba says he is inundated with questions about the timeline of the search but has few answers for now.“It’s not going to be done by Labor Day, and I’d be really depressed if it’s not done sometime in the spring or the late spring, because we really need a new president by the end of the academic year,” he says.According to Houghton, the search committee...
...minority faculty and students, and to scrap classroom policies they considered discriminatory. One women’s group even charged that the school’s lackadaisical search for women and minority faculty candidates has violated federal affirmative action hiring codes, a complaint still pending with the Department of Labor. Last week, the school finally began to act. Administrators announced they will include students on the school’s three admissions committees—as a student panel had requested. And they revealed they will soon hire a female associate professor, the highest-level female faculty member...
...Aside from the charisma discrepency, Schwarzenegger's popularity ratings, in free fall for much of the past year, have lately rebounded a bit, thanks in part to $7 billion in unexpected tax revenue. In his favor, Angelides is running in a predominantly Democratic state, has the backing of powerful labor unions and may get some mileage out of the current backlash against GOP President George W. Bush. Still, in a Field poll of 702 likely voters last week looking ahead to the gubernatorial race, Schwarzenegger beat Angelides by 7 percentage points (with a a nearly 4-point margin of error...