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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences implemented work hours reductions for over 100 janitors in July—a move that FAS officials say will help cut costs while avoiding layoffs, but union representatives say will devastate worker living standards.According to an Aug. 10 announcement on the FAS Planning Web site, FAS cut 5 percent of its custodial costs by reducing overhead expenses, negotiating lower rates for cleaning supplies, eliminating non-emergency overtime, and reducing work hours for janitors. The site said that most custodians would not see their hours reduced, and that a typical schedule reduction for those affected would...
...military, were optimistic that a man of the military would come, not just because he was fellow military person, but because we know that men of the military are clear and say their opinion because the nature of their work is very dangerous since you are dealing with the lives of people. When you manage a war, the fuel of wars is people, be it from your side or your enemy's side. So you are dealing with a very dangerous issue and tend to be more objective than anyone else. General Gration did not disappoint us. He was very...
...Comprehensive Peace Agreement between north and south Sudan that ended more than 30 years of civil war ... was supposed to make unity attractive. But no one can say unity is attractive now. It seems undoubted that the south will vote to secede [in 2011]. If the south does vote to secede, what will be the north's reaction...
...that the government will only charge them with using "improper means" to gain access to commercial secrets - commercial bribery - the executives will have access to legal counsel and should be able to mount a defense. Sam Walsh, the iron-ore chief executive for Rio, went so far as to say that since "the charges have been downgraded ... I think that reflects what we've been saying all along: that we don't believe there's any evidence of wrongdoing...
...Contrary to constant press reports in China and abroad, which say the Chinese side of the iron-ore price negotiations are being conducted on Beijing's side by the Chinese Iron and Steel Association, they are, in fact, being run straight out of Premier Wen Jiabao's office. And Wen, says the banking source, has "not been a happy man" since the Chinalco deal fell apart earlier this summer. Don't misread, in other words, the absence of the state-secrets charge against the Rio Four as evidence that the extraordinary face-off between China and one of the world...