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...employer should relegate workers to bad jobs. For-profit organizations plead market competition to justify their increasing use of temporary and contract workers. Regardless of the dubious validity of this rationale, profits are not a consideration for non-profit organizations--particularly educational institutions. Given Harvard's long history and unparalleled wealth, survival is hardly an issue. Why then should Harvard emulate for-profits in its treatment of non-professional staff? Any growth of non-standard workers at Harvard and our University's unwillingness to commit to a living wage and standard benefits for all its de jure and de facto...
...devoted to rallies that protest rape, incest and brutality against women, and includes non-profit performances of the Vagina Monologues, whose proceeds are donated to local women's groups...
...Thursday they got neither. UPS warned about its first-quarter profit estimates. Procter & Gamble announced 9,600 layoffs as part of further cost-cutting. And two economic reports - the index of leading economic indicators and the weekly state unemployment claims - told Greenspan exactly what he's been telling the markets: The economy, though weak, does not appear to be heading into a recession...
...meeting this off-brand challenge, the drug companies hope to protect their franchise not only in impoverished Africa but also in the U.S., where drug pricing has long been a target of health activists and where a price war with generics could cut deeply into profit margins. As Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin acknowledges, unless AIDS drugs become more generally available, "our intellectual property is at risk...
Kreme's rise is evidence that not every sector is taking a beating. Companies like Alcoa and RJR Tobacco, which make or sell basic stuff, such as oil, aluminum, electricity--and, yes, cigarettes--are whipping the tech sector. Oh, did we mention that they earn a profit? How old-fashioned...