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...past two years, the University has demonstrated an embarrassing inability to deal fairly with its unionized workers. And throughout the contract negotiations, Harvard administrators have relentlessly nickel-and-dimed those workers. For the University to play hardball with a workforce as vital to the University as its patrol officers is not only outrageous, it is a threat to the safety of the University...
...would like to have a nickel for every time they ask what Harvard's mascot is. It sounds like their making a bet from some bar or something," she says...
...spent 35 of his 54 years in Washington. But he was shaped by blue-collar Brooklyn and nuns that made him toe the line ("If you did something wrong, they hit you"). He was a Flatbush Boys Club boxing champ, such a scrapper that his mother paid him a nickel for each day he didn't get into a fight...
Some academics, including Harvard's own Professor Stephen J. Gould, contend that it's worth putting a nickel into the SETI slot machine even if the odds are immense. There might be a huge payoff, but this is a billion dollar-nickel in times when the nation can least afford...
...come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but basically they say: Look, you're an amateur. We're pros. Why should you worry your little head trying to manage your investments? For just 3% a year, we'll take care of < that for you! And we won't nickel-and-dime you on commissions: we'll wrap all commissions into that one 3% annual...