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...tell, the increase in inequality probably is due to a number of factors, notably including technological change that seems to have favored higher-skilled workers more than lower-skilled ones. In addition, some economists point to increased international trade and the declining role of labor unions as other, probably lesser contributing factors...
...Harvard’s bureaucratic mire, lesser administrators tend to get bulldozed by their Olympian overlords, to their students’ detriment. Harvard University has enjoyed a long, symbiotic romance with its incidental undergraduate component, Harvard College. But there’s no question that the manure only ever flows downhill. Or, in Harvard’s case, down the stairs from the third floor of University Hall—home to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), of which the College is a formal subsidiary—to the Harvard College Dean’s Office...
...question is whether it's better to pass on that cost via a baggage surcharge, rather than a ticket price hike. In terms of consumer psychology, the bag option may indeed be the lesser evil. On ticket-buying websites, extra fees are often not quoted in the initial price displayed to customers - only later, as they're completing their purchase. Given the advantage airlines gain by scoring better in online searches, "a price increase is a far riskier decision than going with this type of fee," says Larry Compeau, a marketing professor at Clarkson University. As Seaney puts it: "Airlines...
...morale in the tradition of the Soviet Union in its heyday. And there was certainly an opportunity for crowing, just last week, when Russia's Zenit St. Petersburg won a 2-0 victory over Glasgow Rangers in the UEFA Cup Final staged in Manchester. That trophy may be a lesser tournament than the Champion's League, but that didn't stop both Prime Minister Putin and his President-consort Dmitri Medvedev from celebrating Zenit as if it had defended Mother Russia against foreign aggression. In the same week, a second opportunity to whip up national hysteria came when Russia defeated...
...display less than one percent of the collections,” he said. “We hope to create larger exhibition spaces.” Additionally, Manoogian hopes that putting the all the art collections in close proximity to each other will attract more visitors to the lesser-frequented Sackler Museum. “At the moment, the Sackler has one-fifth the visitors compared to the Fogg and the Busch-Reisinger because of the physical separation,” Manoogian said. Manoogian also believes that connecting the museums will give rise to many creative opportunities...