Word: unionizers
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...brochure will provide information on options relating both to termination and to pre-natal and post-natal care. The bill, which was co-sponsored by high-ranking members of the Harvard College Women’s Center, Harvard Right to Life, Harvard Students for Choice, and the Radcliffe Union of Students, allocated $150 to the design of the brochure and $150 to its printing. The Women’s Center is allocating an additional $300 to the effort. Susan Y. Yao ’09-’10, an intern at the Women’s Center...
...czar was never crowned. With those plans due Tuesday - and talks with union leaders and debtors apparently bogged down - President Barack Obama has reportedly decided to send an emissary to knock heads at the bargaining table, while saving the final decisions for himself and his existing economics team...
Real change won't come easy. Two major players in restructuring the industry - major bondholders and the United Auto Workers (UAW) - have thus far shown little interest in renegotiating their agreements. Union locals in Michigan and New York have rejected proposals for contract concessions, and UAW chief Ron Gettelfinger has sensed the mood of his membership. He's not buying the claim that union costs are sinking the industry. Other labor leaders are watching Obama's reaction to the UAW to see whether the new President will stick up for his union friends. Meanwhile, business continues to tumble. Forecasters predict...
...showing of Lawrence of Arabia at his hometown cinema hall in Kabul. He haunted movie theaters after that, taping together remnants of filmstrips to make his own films, which he would then show to his friends in tiny makeshift movie halls fashioned from cardboard. When the Soviet Union invaded in 1979, he joined the mujahedin guerrillas, eventually forming the documentary-film unit for rebel commander Ahmed Shah Massoud. (Massoud, also a film buff, introduced Barmak to Casablanca, Spartacus and Platoon...
...Such talk of repatriation is supposed to be anathema in the European Union, where the internal market is a core, treaty-enshrined ideal. But Sarkozy's protectionist language ripped off the veneer of European unity over the economic crisis. "The French have signaled that they are willing to do things they know are illegal under E.U. law," says Katinka Barysch, Deputy Director at the London-based Centre for European Reform (CER). "But if one E.U. country goes down this route, others will feel they have to follow...