Word: okay
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...member of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), which includes secretaries, lab technicians and library workers. When Harvard goes to the bargaining table with a union, he says, it can use the threat of outsourcing as leverage. “Harvard can say, ‘Okay, if you don’t want lower wages, your job will go to an SSI guard,’” says Fenstermacher. Thus, lower wages and the fear of potential unemployment looms on the horizon for many of the guards...
...which featured mainly rows of bored Chinese exhibitors from around the country. Many of them would have stayed home, too, but the government ordered them to attend. "We know the situation is bad and scary, but as a Shanghai organizer, I had to tell our companies that it is okay," says Ms. Hou, who is overseeing a 1,000-plus person delegation. When her group returns to Shanghai, it will be quarantined for 14 days. The exhibition "is too desperate for money," Hou complains, "and our lives are at risk." Hers and, across China, how many more...
...members of cults say, ‘I’m free to leave whenever I want; I just choose not to leave.’ And then you ask, ‘Is it possible for someone to leave your group and still be okay with God?’ And they say no, it’s not possible...
...He’s been sitting. He’s been riding the bike and not running and getting through it,” Walsh said. “He’s usually okay in a day or two, but we might have to sit him for a little while. Hopefully that’s all that is, patella tendinitis...
...ritual call: "One and two, 12. All the sixes, 66 ?" Suddenly, the place is alive with movement - hands zipping back and forth, dabbing at the cards with sniper-like precision. Everyone racing to be the first to fill a row, two rows or a full house. Racing to win. Okay, so granted that bingo, a favored pastime of Britain's comfy slipper set, will never pass for an extreme sport. But recently the industry has been working hard to shake off its old-age image. With some success: in any given week, around 3 million people play bingo across...