Word: performancy
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...offer a First Aid course to all freshmen, as well as healthier dining hall food and vending machines with fruit and basic medication. Presidential candidate John F. Voith ’07 and Vice Presidential candidate Tara Gadgil ’07 proposed creating various new committees that would perform functions such as coordinating discussion between Harvard’s student groups. Alcohol and alcohol abuse were the central issues in the debate. Haddock and Voith agreed that creating a pub in Loker Commons would not be endorsing binge drinking in any way. “It is our chief...
...drop in and earn from $7 to $10 an hour doing jobs such as construction and landscaping. The law does not require the day-labor centers to check the legal status of workers. It allows employers to hire them without informing federal and state agencies if the workers perform casual, nonrecurrent jobs like babysitting or gardening on the employer's property or if they have a special skill like carpentry and can work without supervision. In those cases, the day-labor centers can legitimately--if not very plausibly--argue that the workers were legals. The practice plays cute with...
...hire Aboriginal people; it then requires poise and wisdom to mentor the new workers and to maintain the relationship with the employer. "The employment coordinators are our lifeblood," says Estens. "They're our strongest and weakest link." Finding people with the necessary experience is difficult; the pressure to perform is high, as is the turnover; and the best ones always seem to end up with a better-paying job in a large company or in government. Dahlstrom is most comfortable away from the office, out in the ute, visiting cockies, tradesmen and factory managers...
...like a tennis or a golf player; you have to trust in your technique. Singing in a high range, like [in Strauss's] Daphne, is a risk, but risk is exciting. That is what audiences want. In 1998 you were booed at La Scala but returned to perform at the opera house SEVEN months later. how was that? I felt if I didn't go back, the experience would loom larger in my memory, and I needed to step up to the plate. It is a lot like getting back on a horse that has thrown you. But Pavarotti...
...generate income locally. "All the money ends up with shopkeepers and traders from Bamako [the capital]," he says. The trick now is to find programs that maximize the benefits of remitted cash while avoiding some of its downside. Some migrants are now using their economic clout to perform work usually done by big aid organizations. Ambadedi's workers' association in Paris, for example, funds some village projects with its members' own earnings. But the association also solicits help from the French government and the European Union. "We have a project under way to purify the village water supply," says Ibrahim...