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This unhappy arrangement appears to reflect what economists refer to as “managerial slack.” In making decisions about outsourcing, administrators have not always put the interests of the University community above the pursuit of their own personal objectives. Thanks to the hard work of the janitors union and the Living Wage Campaign, University President Lawrence H. Summers is now attempting to achieve a cultural change...
Though the average retirement age is creeping up--and a growing share of Americans, by choice or necessity, are planning to work at least part time well past 65--demographers say there still will not be enough qualified members of the next generation to pick up the slack. So with 76 million baby boomers heading toward retirement over the next three decades and only 46 million Gen Xers waiting in the wings, corporate America is facing a potentially mammoth talent crunch. Certainly, labor-saving technology and immigration may help fill the breach. Still, by 2010 there may be a shortage...
...well-located property with large rooms suited for group gatherings, until members heard about Sigma Chi’s needs. Ordinarily the price for such a space would have been out of range for a fledgling fraternity like Sigma Chi, but Pi Eta decided to cut them some slack...
...conveniently, “C-minus” had no time to discuss the philosophy of pedagogy when there were numbers to be adjusted, and neither does Lower today. (We’ll give Lower a little slack, because, in addition to grades, he’s also adjusting the number of faculty.) Could it be that Harvard students-hand picked for their anal-retentive, over-achieving zeal-regularly produce the “work whose excellent quality indicates a full mastery of the subject,” the College definition of an A? Would it be surprising...
...investors all week: anemic. Alan Greenspan is largely responsible, writing in the Wednesday-released "beige book" that yes, the recovery was coming, but it might not be anything spectacular. The lack of business spending is particularly worrisome, the consumers' part hard to take for granted, the labor market still "slack" (meaning unemployment may stay up for a while). Energy costs are staying up, and manufacturers' willingness to upgrade their equipment remains limited...