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...changes agreed to with Ford are now subject to approval of the UAW membership at Ford. Such a vote, which could also cover other agreed to cuts, such as elimination of productivity bonuses and cost-of-living adjustments over the next two years, could be held as early as next week. In addition, proposed changes to the VEBA will require court approval, Gettelfinger said...
...race between Holoshitz and Daniel V. Kroop ’10, the current UC communications director, was hotly contested and resulted in a tie. Holoshitz won the re-vote by a small margin...
...visions of hope and change but rather dwells upon the consequences of economic “structural adjustment.”Fmylife works by presenting an array of reader-submitted faux pas, each concluding with the initialism-exclamation “FML”, and allowing readers to vote on who “deserved” it and whose life is really “f***ed.”The top anecdotes tend to follow a certain pattern: a brief recount of one of life’s little disappointments, followed by a twist of the knife that...
...winner, four losers; then it's move on, dot, yawn. What if we learned, as the tally was shown on a big board behind the person reading out the nominations for Best Actor, what the names of the top two contenders were - and that they were just one vote apart? That actually happened in 1932, and the Oscar was given to both Fredric March and Wallace Beery. But we know that only because the Academy later changed the rule: to declare a tie, the tallies had to be exactly even. We also know that, in 1969, Katharine Hepburn and Barbra...
...Making the vote tabulation public would also invigorate the weeks before the Oscar show. So-called experts give odds on the nominees in top categories, but the knowledge that only the winner will be revealed renders that exercise useless; now it'd mean something. And all those office Oscar pools could promote, in addition to the winners, any number of beguiling side bets. Who can pick the top five in the most categories - in order? How many votes will separate Sean Penn from Mickey Rourke? Does The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, seemingly left in the dust by Slumdog Millionaire...