Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to Huang, "The 'real stuff'--shows unmangled by censorship and poor English dubbing jobs--was available only by a few small commercial companies at relatively expensive prices or through fansubs, which are subtitled translations done by fans for fans, not for profit. In the past years, the commercial scene has grown tremendously as the market has blossomed...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences hoped to raise enough money to endow 40 new Faculty chairs, but campaign donors have funded only about half of those posts. At $2.5 million a pop, a named professorship is no small donation...
...student umbrella group, United Students Against Sweatshops, released the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), an outline of principles for university monitoring of overseas garment factories. The WRC calls for full public disclosure of locations and wage information of all factories producing college clothing. It also mandates the establishment of a small non-profit monitoring body responsible for responding to worker complaints. These principles represent a clear break from those currently held by the government and industry-sponsored Fair Labor Association (FLA), which would rely on classified, corporate audits for information about overseas labor conditions. Harvard ought to support the WRC principles...
...proposal, assuming that factory locations and information are made public, would then staff a small, independent monitoring organization that responds to complaints rather than tries to inspect every garment factory on the globe. A secret, corporate model such as the FLA, on the other hand, lacking the aid of public scrutiny, would try to do all the monitoring itself...
...quiet meditation and exercise - highlights the problem facing the authorities' attempts to crack down. "It's almost impossible to stop a movement that's spread by word of mouth and whose basic manifestation is a regime of exercise and meditation," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Security services can monitor small networks of dissidents, but they simply don't have enough people to monitor something of this scale...