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...would like to see more worker education, job training, and job creation. One scholar at a Canadian think tank devoted to welfare issues characterizes Messinger's focus as a "human resources" approach rather than a welfare approach. Such a tack is "preferable," writes the scholar, "especially because it promotes, not destroys human dignity and well-being...
Harvard had chances to tack on more runs in the first, but freshman Deborah Abeles was pegged at home trying to score on Kreuder's hit, and later in the inning with the bases loaded freshman Ghia Godfree grounded out to the pitcher to end the inning...
...inning after Carey's blast, the Crimson mounted a two-out rally to tack on two more runs. The big knock in the inning was an RBI double by sophomore Andrew Huling to drive in Kessler...
Patients First, a coalition of four health-care unions based in Newark, New Jersey, is trying a different tack. In February it ran arresting ads on drive-time radio that opened with the beeping of a heart monitor ("This used to be the sound that mattered in determining your health care") and was followed by the ringing of a cash register ("Today this is the sound that matters"). The ads urged listeners to call a toll-free number "if you've been a victim of when profits come before patients." The coalition mainly wanted to recruit such victims to testify...
...passivity, Epps' strategy for race relations on this campus does embrace the idea of programmatic action through the Harvard Foundation. Contrast this tack with that of Appelbaum, whose negativity last night proved overwhelming. Aside from admitting that there was a problem, he saw nothing that could be done to alleviate it. This is the worst sort of mentality, the resistance to change for the better. It is not worth detailing his many awful statements (such as calling the proposed multicultural student center a "cage"), but suffice to say that his do-nothing attitude reflected a bent uninterested in solving...