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According to Yale unions spokesperson Bill Meyerson, Local 34 and Local 35—which represents Yale’s service and maintenance workers—are asking for one-year retroactive raises of 4 and 3 percent and increases of 8.5 percent and 5.5 percent over the next three years, respectively...
...don’t really care about floating,” said Wilham P. Meyerson ’05. “I would rather go alone and take the luck of the draw than be an appendage to a group so that I can feel like I belong...
McGee knew what he was doing. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which broke the story, state records show that he tested positive in 1992 and was told the result. "He didn't care about spreading the virus," says Beth Meyerson of the Missouri Department of Health. "It was a clear case of power." Meyerson says that in Missouri, which closely tracks people with HIV, fewer than 1% knowingly infect others. But one heartless player can mean a public health disaster...
...combination of forces--inflation, hubris, competition, the Chivas Regal effect, perhaps even conspiracy--drove up Penn's tuition. In comparable dollars, says former president Meyerson, a year at Penn today costs about twice what it did in 1970. Yet from 1970 through 1994, government figures show, median family income in constant dollars increased only 10%. In more recent years it has actually fallen below the 1986 figure. Taken together, these trends make tuition a very painful prospect for any parent whose kid has just been accepted by Penn or, for that matter, Harvard, Yale or Princeton...
...Meyerson says. The education offered by the top schools, he argues, is much better, with more courses, bigger libraries, more sophisticated research laboratories. As a nation, he says, "we have the best educational pattern in the world...But having said that, there's no reason why we cannot have a better ratio of benefits to costs...