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Speaking about job security yesterday, he said that "workers can be fired at any time without severance pay," but that "severance pay is unheard of in the restaurant industry." Restaurants generally employ people who will only work for short periods of time, he added...
...this, as Solzhenitsyn points out, is no way to write history. "My object," he declares, "is to examine the social reasons for this unheard-of phenomenon: that several hundred thousand young people took up arms against their mother country on the side of her worst enemy. We must consider who was to blame?these young people or the motherland. You cannot explain it by some inborn biological instinct for treachery...
...Athenians poured in supplies of groceries to the students through student-controlled side-doors. The buildings were kept clean, and there were signs reminding students not to damage the facilities. Complete medical care was also available to the students. Thus the students were actually locked in a free environment unheard of in Greece since the coup of April...
...explains. "We can't even afford to call prospective players long-distance every evening to tell 'em nighty-night, and we don't have the affluent alumni to do the little extras in recruiting that a lot of colleges have." Big under-the-table incentives are unheard...
...came close the last two years to escaping the inglorious fate of drinking away football losses. Two years ago, a cocky sophomore, Jimmy Stoeckel, started against the Big Green and almost brought Harvard a victory over the Hanover marauders with some unheard of passing heroics. But fate willed that one away in the last seconds, and a Ted Perry field goal sent me to the cooler again...