Word: offing
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"In terms of the issues raised in those negotiations, the answer would have to be no," she wrote in an e-mail.
"To pull out a single strand is a very difficult thing to do. It's a piece of the environment in which the negotiations are carried out," says Merry Touborg, director of communications for the office of human resources.
"We still weigh the same factors. To the extent that there is student activism [it] is one of the factors that we weight," she says.
Touborg lists debates over benefits, changing marketing rates, the need to control costs, worker equity and the desirability of Harvard as a workplace as factors that may affect negotiations.
"The living wage campaign [has] a pretty simplistic way of looking at the world," Price says.