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...late 2005, workers at Ford came within a few dozen votes of scuttling a plan that offered the company relief from skyrocketing health-care costs by raising co-pays and deductibles. At Chrysler, the same cuts never came to a vote because the union's Chrysler council, which is made up of top local union officers, opposed the cuts even though the union board had recommend approval...
...problem of stimulant addiction in the U.S. has dropped out of the spotlight of late, but it has not disappeared. According to a 2007 government survey, 2.1 million Americans had used cocaine in the month prior to the survey and 1 million had taken other stimulants for nonmedical purposes, including more than half a million users of methamphetamine. There are currently no overwhelmingly effective addiction treatments. Abstinence-based rehab therapy for meth and cocaine work about as well as rehab for other drugs - meaning that about one-third of users improve following treatment, but most relapse repeatedly. And despite decades...
...similar sort of re-framing that led the American fiasco in Vietnam to occur. The hardliners in the foreign policy apparatus in the late years of the 50s refused to see the fight in Vietnam as one of local politics, denied the overriding issues of nationalism and dressed it up as a Communist bogeyman for the American public and the world. Communism turned out not to be a monolith, just as Islam isn’t, but a force shaped by local history and regional circumstances. The results of this were disastrous. This sort of logic, that simplifies, reduces...
...Club, the Asian American Association, the Environmental Action Committee, Strong Women Strong Girls, the South Asian Men’s Collective, the Black Men’s Forum, and Perspective Magazine. Schwartz and Biggers have been endorsed by the Black Students Association, Freeze Magazine, and the Progressive Jewish Alliance. Late last night, The Crimson endorsed the Schwartz-Biggers ticket, citing the candidates’ diverse backgrounds and the strength of their platform...
...making those decisions, Ennis wrote, each department will be “guided by the school’s teaching and research mission,” as well as the priorities identified by the strategic planning report released in late November, concluding the first phase of a process launched last fall...