Word: preciousness
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...addition, a few forms of "speech," such as displaying a union logo, are protected by the National Labor Relations Act, and the courts may decide this makes Caterpillar's crackdown illegal. But the general assumption is, any expansion of workers' rights would infringe on the apparently far more precious right of the employer to fire "at will." So the lesson for America's working people is: If you want to talk, be prepared to walk...
...seem to have a cynical paradox at the heart of our political culture: "Freedom" is our official national rallying cry, but unfreedom is, for many people, the price of economic survival. At best this is deeply confusing. In school we're taught that liberty is more precious than life itself--then we're expected to go out and sell that liberty, in eight-hour chunks, in exchange for a livelihood. But if you'd sell your freedom of speech for a few dollars an hour, what else would you sell? Think where we'd be now, as a nation...
...edict from the dining authorities, handed down just before the semester began, states that any person without an ID will not be admitted to meals. The rationale is to protect the cards, suddenly made more precious than gold by the advent of Crimson Cash...
...direct concern about the increasingly precarious status of media and the increasingly marginal student interest in current affairs toward those who publish Harvard's daily, weeklies, journals, gazettes and magazines. For at least these students recognize on some level the value of such publications, spending many of their precious free hours toiling so that their words will see the light...
...their House dining halls for hours. As long as someone is eating or drinking something (and everyone at the table conveniently takes turns going up for dessert, or more coffee), it would be rude to get up from the table. And so we sit, happy to let precious studying time slip through our fingers...