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...June 4 news article "Students Feel the Pinch" incorrectly implied that the fact that a smaller number of student tutors were hired at the Writing Center resulted from a reduction in the Center's budget. In fact, the reduction in new hires only reflected a smaller number of tutors graduating that particular year, according to Writing Center Director Jane Rosenzweig, who said there are no plans to reduce the budget for tutors at the Writing Center...
...huge sigh of relief after the last-minute deal to rescue GM's European operations. German unions had always supported Austrian-Canadian company Magna International's takeover of GM Europe, wary that the rival bid from Fiat was just an attempt, as one union official put it, to "pinch German engineering." The unions regard Magna as an innovative company that put forward the best plan to secure the long-term future of Opel. At the carmaker's headquarters in the town of Rüsselsheim near Frankfurt, workers were hugging friends and colleagues outside the factory on Saturday when news...
That assessment may sound admirably prudent. But Germany is in bad shape. In Halle, they're feeling the pinch, again - even if the situation is (remarkably) not quite as bad as it is in west German regions such as the environs of Stuttgart, where almost half a million people have been put on short-term work since last October as auto and machinery factories have slowed production. The east has been somewhat protected because its firms don't export as much as their west German opposite numbers. An unmistakable streak of eastern stoicism helps, too. "I notice that when...
Yeah, yeah, the lattes--and the DVDs and trips to the salon--do add up. That's why there's no shortage of talking heads telling you how to pinch pennies. Having manicure nights at home with friends, borrowing DVDs from the library, sipping water alongside your pricey cocktail--these may sound like neat ideas to you. Or complete mood killers...
...Bomb made it to press, albeit in dramatically reduced fashion—printing only 1,000 copies compared to the 6,000 to 8,000 they used to publish, according to Colette S. Perold ’11, H-Bomb’s business manager. Still feeling the pinch even with the donations, H-Bomb also decided to switch—at least for this issue—from a free and door-dropped magazine to a publication sold in dining halls for $5 a copy...