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Though their safety is not threatened, something just as precious is at stake: their jobs. The civil servant ranks have swollen from 27,000 during the days of the Duvalier dictatorship to 55,000 under the junta. With so many to do so little, government work days are often filled with cups of coffee and idle chatter. Yet their salaries gobble up 80% of the national treasury. To comply with the demands of the International Monetary Fund, Aristide must pare those ranks to 34,000. Whether these bureaucrats will back Aristide's efforts or try to gridlock his attempts...
...just a consideration. After all, we do allow young, impressionable kids to waste their few, precious Saturday afternoons watching golf...
Tuesday, it was Maine's turn to rain on an already soggy season for Harvard; although the Black Bears controlled the play as precious few teams have against the Crimson, it took Jake Oulmet's second goal of the game--and a controversial goal at that--in the 85th minute to deal Harvard its seventh non-Ivy loss in seven tries, this time by a 2-1 score...
Opponents of Question 5--including Roosevelt--believe that reforming the "blue laws" will remove precious family time and will put small businesses at a disadvantage...
...male-dominated society have become the norm for modern feminism. We all want something to be impassioned about, and at times being enraged is both easier and more glamorous than being rational. Too often, debates on gender issues become polarized between a feminist left and an antifeminist right, leaving precious little room for those who criticize both of these camps as flawed...