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...while the report acknowledges that "it might have been easier, quicker and more popular" to raise wages, the committee chose not to establish a base wage of $10.25--originally $10--per hour for all Harvard employees, the core demand of the living wage campaign...
This Saturday, committee members will attend a workshop on efficiency issues like this one, and D'Alessandro says she has staffers working on procedures to ensure quicker response to members' requests...
...stocks as you want, and you choose them. The cost is a fraction of typical brokerage commissions. Another website, buyandhold.com lets you do the same thing at the higher cost of $2.99 per transaction. But that site has certain advantages, such as lower fees for onetime only investments and quicker execution. It's worth a look...
Last December's Baker v. Vermont decision by the Vermont Supreme Court, which granted gays and lesbians the right to have legal unions, moved far quicker than the current of political trends. In the future, historians may even look back on the decision in the same way they view California's 1948 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage. That was a decision so far ahead of its time that the U.S. Supreme Court did not agree with it not for another 20 years. Similarly, although Baker effectively ends decades of discrimination, its idea of granting gay unions legal recognition...
Because we understandably pay most attention to the fast-changing elements, we forget that the real power lies in the domains of deep, slow change. Nature and culture define the limits of what's possible for the quicker elements, and they provide the base of continuity for the whole game. While fashion and commerce "learn" quickly, governance and culture integrate lessons steadily and "remember." The combination of quick learning and deep remembering makes a civilization strong against shocks and profoundly adaptable. Blending in with the pace of natural systems engages the power of their resilience...