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...down. Why? Because the green glues added value to a brand worn by environmentally conscious outdoor enthusiasts. But there's another reason: the effect Swartz believes such socially responsible initiatives have on the rank and file of his company. That also accounts, in part, for why he has installed stringent fair-labor policies at Timberland's factories and those of its vendors in Asia, Eastern Europe and North Africa. Timberland does not allow workers to put in more than 60 hours a week--a rule that has provoked much grumbling abroad, where laborers often want to work more. (Swartz says...
Even if the statutory argument offered by Dellinger and the Harvard professors prevails—which it might not—Congress could respond by passing an more stringent version of the Solomon Amendment...
...policies used in AMOD include: training for bartenders to help them better identify patrons who have drunken too much and identify fake driver’s licenses, requiring registration for keg purchasers, upholding stringent drinking-age laws, banning alcohol-related items from student bookstores, and expanding substance-free dorms...
...first and then line up to swipe would also work. This change would ameliorate the current system of one line for food and swiping, which creates an absolutely maddening bottleneck at peak hours of the day.With dining hall overcrowding becoming an increasingly large problem on campus, the proliferation of stringent interhouse dining restrictions is not a surprise. The escalation of restrictions is a necessary evil that we will have to live with, but it should not be a pox on all the Houses...
...slightest of State Department travel warnings. The policy stipulated that undergrads could not travel to countries for which the State Department had stated that US citizens should “consider carefully the risks of travel” or “defer travel.” With this stringent policy in place, students could not study in countries such as Israel, Lebanon, Iran, and Kenya. The result was that students were prevented from traveling to some of the most interesting and educational places in the world simply because of a general, blanket warning. The old policy also ignored regional...