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...shoe store in Providence, R.I. He told of eight different banks that turned him down late last year when his 73-year-old business, struggling from the economic downturn, was badly in need of a loan. In March, he was able to secure $400,000 from a credit union through a program set up by the stimulus plan, whereby the government provides insurance for small-business loans. Jamiel said the loan has allowed him to restock his store, Jamiel's Shoe World, and that sales have nearly doubled in the past few months. "If the government can save small businesses...
August, 1985 marked the birth of an independent union self-organized by Harvard’s “forgotten workers.” It was nascent in every sense of the word: a couple hundred staffers led by a few unpaid organizers, with no financial backing and no official space. The organization lacked even a name...
...When one practical member suggested “The Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers,” most members took offense at the resulting unwieldy acronym: “HUCTW.” But a 24-year-old named Bill Jaeger stepped forward to express support for the “awkward but accurate” approach—and others took notice...
...could then be exempt both from required enrollment in that instructor’s class and from facing that professor on an exam board. The policy was endorsed by the recently formed eight-student Government Department Sexual Harassment Committee, the Graduate Student Council, Women in Science, and the Radcliffe Union of Students.OPENING UP A PAINFUL DIALOGUEThe administration had consistently stopped short of revoking a faculty member’s coveted tenure appointment on account of sexual harassment accusations, however. It would not make that move until early 1985, when Government Professor Douglas A. Hibbs Jr. was forced to resign, making...
...society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution, its once productive population transformed into one of aid-dependent paupers. This context is undeniably one of mass suffering, created largely by Israel but with the active complicity of the international community, especially the U.S. and European Union, and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank...