Word: layoffs
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That Harvard even had a chance to win this game was a minor miracle. After an ugly first half in which the Crimson shot 29 percent from the field and showed the effects of the exam period layoff...
...couple of good practices coming into the game, but once we got out there, [the layoff] definitely hurt us," Gilmore said. "The games are just a lot more intense, with more defensive pressure...
This past downturn in the economy hit African Americans disproportionately hard, according to a report by the General Accounting Office. Blacks were 15 percent more likely than whites to lose their jobs. Asians experienced the lowest layoff risk. Once African-Americans lost their jobs, they were unemployed slightly longer than workers in other racial groups. And when they were re-employed, they had to take a 10.1 percent salary cut -- the highest of any racial or ethnic category...
...students support the protesters'position. Several told The Crimson yesterday thatthey see the necessity of cutbacks and do notbelieve Burciaga's layoff was a result of ethnicbias...
...derivatives market. The company bought oil futures for a subsidiary -- just before oil prices collapsed -- leaving it < with $1.3 billion in losses and triggering a national scandal. Prosecutors have been investigating the role of fired CEO Heinz Schimmelbusch, who has denied doing anything wrong. Nonetheless, bank creditors demanded the layoff of 7,500 ofMetallgesellschaft's 46,000 employees and the sale of several divisions as the price for rescuing the company...