Word: silva
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Basically what the commission said was that we are not going to give you a raise, that you have to prove to us that you need it," Silva said...
...With the increased cost of insurance, vehicles, and maintenance, the increase was well-deserved," said Joseph W. Silva, manager of the Yellow Cab and Ambassador Brattle Cab companies...
...drivers seemed to agree with Silva, citing higher insurance rates as their main concern. Patrick Jean-Charles, a driver for the Yellow Cab company, said his annual insurance rates rose from $1700 to $5700 over the past five years...
...companies spent about 10 months working with the city's license commission and different organizations, including tourism and elderly programs, before the rates were raised, Silva said...
Employers are heeding the advice, sometimes too well. The University of New Hampshire suspended a professor of technical writing, J. Donald Silva, in 1993 for classroom remarks he had made the previous year. Besides other suggestive comments, Silva had compared the focus required for writing to that demanded by sex. He had also said, "Belly dancing is like Jell-O on a plate with a vibrator under the plate." Weird, yes. But harassment? The university thought so and directed Silva to take counseling at his own expense. Instead he filed suit. Backed by the Center for Individual Rights, a conservative...