Word: undercutting
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...don’t want to undercut the autonomy of the schools, but I don’t want there to be intellectual silos,” Hyman says. “One of the things I will be working on is initiating more ways to create collaboration in the life sciences...
...mission of this committee is to understand what we’re going to require for any type of Harvard degree,” he says. “We don’t want to undercut the meaning of a Harvard degree...
...vote - is hoping last year's result is not an omen. Indeed, it notes that being a U.N. member is a far simpler matter than joining the E.U. And a "no" vote, proponents say, would shut Switzerland out of global decision making and undercut its role as a diplomatic mediator. "In a world where image is very important, we would be seen as selfish and arrogant," says Fran?ois Nordmann, the Swiss ambassador to international organizations. "It's time to have our say, to take responsibility, to share the burden carried by other nations...
...mind, the committee’s most important, and most damning finding is that Harvard has been using contracted or out-sourced workers to undercut the wages of all its low-wage employees...
...economic sense for a university whose primary business will always be education. But Harvard must take care not to use outsourcing as a means of lowering wages or of dividing and weakening the unions that represent workers. The policy of parity will remove any incentive Harvard might have to undercut union-negotiated wages in this...