Word: wage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students involved in campus activist groups such as the Living Wage Campaign and the Coalition Against Violence organized a walk-out and rally that took place during Commencement Day exercises. The event was intended as a protest of Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan's economic policies and his selection as Commencement speaker...
...officially time to wage some peace in Kosovo. NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana announced Sunday that with the Serb troops out of Kosovo ? ahead of schedule, no less ? "I have accordingly decided to terminate with immediate effect the air campaign." President Clinton assured CNN it was "a very happy day." But on the ground in Kosovo, the early signs are already making the push-button war look like the easy part. Across the province, KLA troops ? in full camouflage and still fully armed despite agreements to the contrary ? are parading in full view of NATO troops and making everybody nervous...
...snap-shot" for the week of February 20 showed that out of a total of 13,113 "regular employees"--wage-earners who work more than 17.5 hours a week--only 358, or just 2.7 percent, earn less than $10 an hour. Yet, out of 1,361 "casual employees," 669 or 49 percent made less than $10 an hour...
While both the sweatshop campaign and wage campaign have infused their rhetoric with their moral imperatives, they also have attempted to redefine who exactly is included in the "Harvard community" and what level of respect--financial and otherwise--they deserve...
...original 15 living wage supporters have now swelled to over 115. The campaign can brag the support of such diverse faculty members as Institute of Politics Director Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, to Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy Mary Jo Bane, a former Clinton administration adviser...