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Former Harvard temporary worker Dennis Prater told his tale of abuse through a bullhorn, claiming that he was cycled through three different categories of temporary employment for over a year in the Gordon McKay Library so that the University was not obliged to provide him with a permanent job and union benefits. After a year, he was laid...
With no severance pay, Prater said that he “learned the many uses for a hot dog because I couldn’t buy more expensive food...
Captain John Prater, president of the Air Lines Pilots Association, says a shortage of qualified pilots is severely affecting some regionals' ability to fly, tempting them to push pilots to fly beyond Federal Aviation Administration maximum flight times. Chronic pilot fatigue jeopardizes safety--and the pipeline's flow. "You destroy the benefit and the value of being an airline pilot, and people will take their skills elsewhere," he says. And they...
...Ballard and two younger partners, engineer Paul Howard and electrochemist Keith Prater, changed course, winning a contract from the Canadian military to research a more exotic form of power. Fuel cells had been around for 150 years and were used in the Gemini space program but were thought to be too expensive for any practical use. As Ballard's team began to make the cells lighter, smaller and thus cheaper, it realized that the technology could eventually be used in vehicles...
Drew was the child of Pat's change of heart. "Pat was married before," explains Prater, "and after two children she had a tubal ligation." But her second husband Dennis Golden had never had children. Says Prater: "She had the operation reversed so that they could have Drew. That child is the center of their world." Pat and her husband worked long hours to provide for the boy. His grandfather Doug Golden insists that "Drew understood law and order." He believes his grandson wasn't close to Mitchell Johnson. "Did this kid threaten him or intimidate him," he wonders...