Word: unionizers
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...months, the fact is that he lost because Australians wanted a change and Kevin Rudd campaigned brilliantly, offering a low-risk "me too" alternative but with sharp differences from unpopular Howard policies, particularly industrial relations, where his campaign was helped by a multimillion-dollar campaign by the trade union movement. Howard will be remembered as an outstanding PM who ultimately outstayed his welcome. Good luck, Mr. Howard, and thank you for your service. Nick White, Brisbane...
...HANKS Well, I remember the invasion. I remember President Carter coming out, and there was a big dramatic thing on TV: the Soviet Union has invaded Afghanistan--we were going to cancel the Olympics, and we weren't going to go to Moscow in 1980. I didn't realize what the covert action of the CIA had done, and whatnot...
HANKS I remember thinking that the Soviet Union had done something really stupid, but it was a sign of that classic Soviet aggression machine, the same way that they'd taken over Hungary in 1956 and gone into Czechoslovakia in 1968--that it was those robots that showed up on Lenin's Tomb every May Day. And I thought, They have made a mistake equal to anything wrong America has done. I remember thinking that it could turn into their Vietnam...
...country with civilian nuclear plants could choose to reprocess spent atomic fuel into plutonium, which can also be used for bombmaking. That would require the construction of a separate reprocessing facility. You need to be smart enough to actually design a weapon, but as Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists points out, "If you can make fissile material, you can make a warhead...
...Crimson off to one of its most successful starts in program history. Junior Sarah Vaillancourt leads the team with 20 points recorded through nine games and was recently named ECAC Hockey Player of the Week for Harvard to commanding wins over No. 8 Dartmouth, Rensselaer and Union this past week. Though the Crimson’s offensive attack so far has been a well-balanced one, as 10 different players have contributed to the team’s 34 goals this season. Notably, rookies Anna McDonald, Liza Ryabkina, Katherine Chute, Kate Buesser, and Deborah Conway scored 13 of those goals.And...