Word: stan
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...system is collapsing from within," is how Stan Eury, director of the North Carolina Growers Association, puts it. He had 10,000 workers in 2000 but only 6,400 this year. Employers complain about the spiraling costs of wages, transportation, government fees and housing. Activists worry about exploitation. Economists say guest-worker programs may look like a flexible solution to the nation's seasonal agricultural needs, but they inevitably grow rigid under a tangle of red tape...
...Stan Glantz and everyone else will be doing content analysis and tracking how much smoking is in films. The advocates will... keep the pressure on, which they should,” he said...
...richest football league by a country mile. New owners are piling in: foreign investors have snapped up four clubs in the past year - Liverpool, Portsmouth, Aston Villa and West Ham United - to add to the three which already had non-British owners. The rush isn't over; in April, Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets basketball team and ice hockey's Colorado Avalanche, increased his stake in Arsenal, of London, to more than 12%. The flood of money is paying dividends; three of the four semifinalists in this year's Champions League are Premier League clubs. With interest swelling...
MARVEL COMICS: Created in 1962 by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby (and originally tinted gray), the Hulk is nuclear scientist Bruce Banner, whose gamma-ray experiments accidentally unlock the rage-driven monster within...
...attractive enough for him to come here.”Jarvis is one of several prominent black coaching candidates being considered for the position. The Globe recently reported that none of the 32 head coaches at Harvard are black. Amaker, who the Globe said will be interviewing tomorrow, and Stan Heath, the former Arkansas coach whose name was in the mix for the Harvard position until he was hired by South Florida this week, are both African American.“I don’t think that this would be any different than any other coaching search that...