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However, King will inherit a union that has watched big contract gains made over the last two generations simply melt away as the auto industry downturn worsened. Union members hired prior to the current downturn continue to make $28 per hour. But when the industry recovers and the Detroit Three will hire new employees, they will only be guaranteed $14 per hour...
...part of Denmark, the summit’s host nation, in its composition of the talks. Yet China has raised obstructive technical objections to specific lines of text throughout the week—eerily similar to the personal account of China’s actions at last year’s climate talks in Paris, shared with me by a prominent scientist who served in the U.S. delegation there. If China is up to its old tricks, calls for greater transparency seem, at best, confused...
Once the neighborhood was deemed safe enough to visit, Faust’s trip itinerary featured the campus—and it was there that she announced last month that Harvard and the University of Johannesburg would embark upon a new initiative to train school principals for some of the poorest areas of the country. With collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Education, the program would seek to attract innovators in education to Soweto, the site of a major student protest during the struggle against apartheid...
HCL’s recent energy-saving, cost-cutting initiatives reflect the University’s current budgetary concerns. Last month, the Task Force on University Libraries released a report, suggesting the possibility of closing some of Harvard’s 73 libraries and reevaluating the University’s ambitious collection strategy, in order to address budgetary pressures...
...magazine underwent its last major redesign in 1990-1992 when Theodore Levitt, who would later be noted for increasing the publication’s circulation, joined as editor...