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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some nights, the negotiation sessions would go until 4 a.m., with 20 people crowded into a small conference room. Both union and University officials said the talks were tough--often acrimonious but always businesslike...
Slowly, thorny issues were resolved. The wage structure--which had rewarded long-time guards--was changed so that newer guards often got a wage boost, the official said...
While the Living Wage Campaign was not directly advocating for casual employees, their mantra of $10-an-hour for all Harvard employees and their very public Mass. Hall rallies helped put the spotlight on Harvard's often overlooked workers...
...perpetrators replicated hundreds of legitimate websites, ranging from the Japanese Friendship Garden to the Harvard Law Review. By changing a single line of hidden software code, the culprits then ensured that any visitor calling up these pages would automatically be shunted to their porn site. Once there, the visitors often could not leave: "mousetrapped," with their computers' "back" and "close" commands disabled. Users were thus caught in what the FTC called "an unavoidable, seemingly endless loop" of pornography. Motive for the scam: to boost the number of visits to the porn site--and thus charge advertisers more...
...opening--two elderly gents meeting in a hospital as they await the death of their wives. The season premiere of Masterpiece Theatre can be poignant, yes, but just as often it's sly and funny, as Albert Finney, playing a randy former R.A.F. pilot, and Tom Courtenay, a fastidious retired milkman, are thrown into a sort of Odd Couple living arrangement. When Finney sets his sights on a chic divorce (Joanna Lumley, of Absolutely Fabulous), the results are delightfully unpredictable. And the richly nuanced performances are altogether superb...