Word: provisionals
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"We feel that public disclosure of factorylocations is an especially important andindispensable provision for any Universityanti-sweatshop policy," Shuldiner said. "One ofthe primary reasons for the existence of today'sglobal sweatshop problem is the extent to whichmanufacturers can hide their subcontractingoperations from human-rights groups and thepublic."
The struggle over patent extension is where Mylan has assumed the role of crusader for lower-cost drugs. Last year the company helped found a lobbying group called the Campaign for Fair Pharmaceutical Competition. The group is currently pushing to eliminate sections of the Waxman-Hatch Act, a landmark 1984...
The promise made and understood here is, of course, that the reader is in the hands of a fine storyteller, whose tale, after many turnings, will end as it should. The turnings are traditional. The title figure, a beautiful, not very experienced young Scotswoman, arrives in London to work in...
To its credit, the Harvard administration has worked at length with the Progressive Student Labor Movement to produce a draft code that, while still problematic in some respects, would be far better than the negligible protections these workers now enjoy. The draft requires that wages cover "local family costs, such...
Workers from this factory will be speaking here next Monday about the horrors of working in a sweatshop. By taking part in a plan that doesn't include a living wage provision, Harvard would be going back on an important commitment to students, but more importantly, to workers.