Word: pushes
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...focusing its editorial so closely on Counter, the staff misses the larger point. Minority students--like minority workers and minority faculty--have legitimate beefs about how Harvard treats them and their concerns. In the divestment movement of the 1980s, in the push for ethnic studies, in the concern over Harvard police treatment of Black students, the University has for years followed the same strategy for dealing with objections raised by minorities: tell them you care, and them wait them out, until they graduate or find jobs elsewhere...
...other companies, the economics work out. Overtime is expensive, of course; many autoworkers are earning $65,000 to $70,000 a year, and electricians on plant-maintenance crews working seven-day weeks can push their take above $100,000. But the combined wage, fringe benefit and training costs of hiring new workers would be more expensive still. Consequently, GM has done no significant hiring since 1986, once more pushing to an extreme a common trend. Since the recovery from the last recession began in March 1991, the U.S. economy has created almost 6 million new jobs, but in a sense...
Several candidates for the Undergraduate Council presidency endorsed 24-hour libraries, and the council is hoping to push through both the all-hours study centers and a safety package for users...
...fault Harvard for improving itself," Guttierrez says of the new center, "but you will have to continue to push Harvard to uphold its commitment to academic excellence. I don't think [the center] would be a complete institute [without studies of Latinos...
Some Republicans saw in Gingrich's delay a possible strategy designed to push Clinton into the hands of his party's left wing next year. Here's how that thinking goes: Clinton will have to ask Republicans and business interests for help with the trade treaty after the election, but that courtship will leave his partners on the left feeling jilted, and they will demand favors of their own. Their IOUs will make it more difficult for Clinton to govern from the center next year, when the 104th Congress turns more moderate. As Wayne Berman, who helped manage trade issues...