Word: orderlies
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Harvard now signs a contract with the outsourcing agency, not a group that represents the workers. It then gives the outsourcer the responsibility of managing and paying the workforce, in order to wash its hands of often acrimonious negotiations, as well as perhaps to improve living-wage statistics while polishing up the bottom line. Though the UNICCO janitors do have a union--a separate bargaining unit in the same SEIU Local 254 where the Harvard-payroll janitors are members--their agreements must be made with UNICCO, not Harvard. Come Nov. 1, the other group of janitors may join that list...
...Dress a movie star up, spread a few rumors about them being cloned and all that's lost is some ink and a few pages of the National Enquirer. Do the same to a mammoth-cicle and 23,000 years of data may end up forever frozen in order to appease the desires of the masses...
...First order of business: to do something about those Flock of Seagulls haircuts...
...liberal-friendly policy initiatives in an era of incremental shuffling. He wants to spend $65 billion on health care for all, $10 billion on combating child poverty, and extend full civil rights to gays. "Gore's presenting him as a dangerous liberal whose policies will destroy the village in order to save it," says Tumulty. "But if he's too aggressive tonight, he risks alienating many undecided liberals." Despite the ideological posturing, both candidates are cut from the same New Democrat cloth, and issues of style will play a major role. But being a battle for the hearts and minds...
...Montenegro don't like living with each other, but neither side is quite ready to face up to the dramatic consequences of that fact. Talks on Montenegro?s proposals to substantially increase its autonomy failed to produce any agreement Tuesday, but both sides pledged to keep talking in order to avoid plunging the region into a new war. Despite the Montenegrins? threat to secede from Yugoslavia if they?re not granted substantial independence from Belgrade, neither side is ready for such a confrontation. "It?s like an unhappy marriage in which the husband and wife are being kind to each...