Word: offerings
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...Security Guard Union filed a labor complaint against the University last week, nothing years of contract disputes during which time the University failed to offer an acceptable contract the union. The Harvard security guards--unique among guards because they are trained by and hired for the University, not by a large security guard conglomerate--feel ignored and slighted after years of service to the University...
They claim Harvard has refused to negotiate with them in good faith. Every offer made to the union by the University includes cutting the guards, especially since they say that their wages have not risen since 1995. The union has been in negotiations with the University since the organization was formed...
...skeptics who believe that this malaise among teens is universal, I offer contrary evidence in the form of Harvard's annual prefrosh weekend, which begins this Friday. When prefrosh arrive this weekend, all of us would do well to watch them carefully, and I do not mean with derision. Despite the prefrosh herd mentality that makes this weekend amusing for jaded upperclass students, it cannot be denied that a sense of uncertainty, excitement, and eagerness for what is to follow is most evident on the faces of those who are new to Harvard's campus. This fall, these students will...
Olivetti, a failed Italian typewriter maker reincarnated as a communications firm, stuns Europe's stock markets with a dramatic, $65 billion offer to take over Telecom Italia, a telephone behemoth seven times its size. A cozy merger between Societe Generale and Paribas, two of France's leading banks, is thrown into disarray when a rival Paris financial house proposes to swallow them both. A battle for control of Italian fashion giant Gucci turns venomous when a French billionaire proclaims that he has snatched the company from the clutches of a rival French raider...
...March, Unicredito, based in Milan, launched a $16 billion bid to buy northern rival Banca Commerciale Italiana, perhaps Italy's most prestigious banking brand. Only a few hours later, San Paulo-IMI, which had become the country's largest commercial bank through an earlier merger, announced a $9.7 billion offer for Banca di Roma, which has a strong retail network in Italy's central region...