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Unionization is expected to lead to collective bargaining. Will the foster parents strike? Probably not--less than 3% of labor talks end in strikes. Plus, says Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary who is a public-policy professor at Berkeley, "when they agreed to take on foster kids, they took on a moral obligation to parent them well...
...only child, which means all his expectations were focused on me,” recalls Whitman, whose Hungarian father, John von Neumann, is known as the creator of game theory. “It was pretty intense.”In fact, Whitman initially wanted to strike a path away from her father’s. “She said that she wanted to go into a field where her father was not particularly a specialist,” says Morton White, who taught Whitman in Humanities 5 and is an emeritus professor of philosophy and intellectual history...
...give up options on some 190,000 shares of stock in the company that that he appears to have earned, according to ArmorGroup's 2005 annual report; at today's prices those options would be worth some $240,000. But their real value for Kappes would depend on their strike price-the report indicates they're currently trading below this level-and their value when they would become exercisable beginning in 2008 and 2009. ArmorGroup chief administrative officer Christopher Beese declined to discuss how Kappes and ArmorGroup might dispose of his options, though it appears likely he will forfeit them...
...jail, including posts featuring messages from the prisoner himself. A month later, El Droubi was released, but he and his friends continue to use the Web to relay news about those activists who remain in prison, many of whom have been placed in solitary confinement after starting a hunger strike in solidarity with Al Sharqawi...
...Some of Venezuela's supply reduction has resulted less from strategy than from political upheaval; a 2002-2003 strike by workers and managers at Venezuela's state-run oil monopoly who opposed Ch?vez didn't help, and and analysts believe that the fiery leader's recent actions to exert more state control over drilling projects has reduced investment. (Venezuela insists it is producing up to 3.5 million barrels a day, though many analysts put it at little over 2.5 million.) But the bottom line is that since 2000, the last time Ch?vez hosted an OPEC gathering, the cartel's daily...