Word: unionizers
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...second term, when the state suffered from a $2.5 billion deficit and one of the highest unemployment rates in the land, Locke declined to raise taxes, angering fellow Democrats. He also turned his back on promises to reform education, eliminating teacher raises and angering their union, who effectively "un-endorsed" him. Thousands of teachers later marched on the state capitol...
There's an odd game going on in Europe. As European governments dip into their coffers and borrow madly in an attempt to repair their economies, the European Union is cheering and jeering at the same time. The cheers are for the economic-stimulus packages; the jeers come because all that spending is blowing budgets by margins that E.U. rules expressly forbid...
...discussing two randomly drawn Apples to Apples cards. Conversation will certainly steam up when someone draws the green card “tasty” and the red card “Helen Keller.” 4. Harvard students have been clamoring for a bona fide student union since before integration! Now is the hour to feed the beast! Imagine a student union that is a blend of an amusement park and a twelve-year-old’s Jar Jar Binks-themed birthday party. Me-sa wants a big underwater rollie coastie. Imagine all-a the food...
...Science is simple. It tests hypotheses, observes the results, and then creates new hypotheses and theories. A scientific economist would clearly see the results of implementing Professor Mankiw’s theories. They failed, just as the economic theories of Karl Marx failed. The Soviet Union imploded under Marx’s economic policies, and our country nearly imploded in 1939 and 2008 as a result of conservative economic policies...
...money laundering, the Mugabes, it appears, have established themselves here with little trouble. Bona Mugabe, the dictator's 20-year-old daughter, is allegedly enrolled at Hong Kong's City University. (Mugabe's relatives have been barred entry at schools in the West and Australia.) The Zimbabwe National Students Union, based in Harare, issued a petition on Feb. 15 demanding Bona's deportation back to Zimbabwe, so that she could resume her studies alongside her people. "The state of our education system is so deplorable," reads their statement, "that [Robert Mugabe] has seen it fit to trust the Chinese...