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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cards. The fee is actually paid by retailers, though consumers feel it in a higher retail price. This rate is twice that charged in the U.K. and New Zealand, four times the rate levied in Australia and more than six times the cross-border rate charged in the European Union, the study says. (Read a brief history of credit cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailers Ready for Fight on Credit-Card Fees | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...Union activists and students at yesterday’s labor rally added to their tried-and-true repertoire of bullhorn blasting and sign waving by walking to Mass. Hall to deliver a modest gift to University President Drew G. Faust: a bag labeled “Get Well Harvard,” filled with cards from protesters...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Highlight Health Concerns | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...first line of defense [against disease] is sanitation, and that’s the function of janitors,” said Daniel B. Becker, a union organizer who represents Harvard’s service workers...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Highlight Health Concerns | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard, escucha, estamos en la lucha” (Harvard, listen, we are in a fight), roughly 50 protesters picketed outside the Holyoke Center, denouncing what they called Harvard’s greed and calling for shared sacrifice by administrators. Geoff P. Carens, a Harvard librarian and union member who frequently organizes such vocal protests, ridiculed the University for saying that it was in the midst of a fiscal crisis and had to lay off workers when the endowment still stands at $26 billion...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Highlight Health Concerns | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

Staff feelings are still raw over the death last summer of Charles Loftly, 60, after he was attacked during an overnight shift at Tryon Residential Center in Johnstown, N.Y., where he was the sole person watching over 10 kids. According to his union, Loftly responded to a resident's feigned vomiting, only to find himself assaulted by three others who smashed his head with a piece of wood they had ripped from a desk. A colleague in an adjoining wing helped foil the escape attempt, but Lofty suffered headaches for weeks. While out on leave, he had a stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Reforming the Juvenile-Justice System Is So Hard | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

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