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...process of handing over services like maintenance, dining and security to private companies, who take care of the bureaucratic and administrative details involved in hiring decisions, wage and benefits scales and allocation of labor. The companies decide who goes where and what they need to function, in other words, while the University can focus on other things...
Compensation expenses ballooned 6 percent to $1.3 billion, reflecting rising salary and wage costs, which increased 5 percent to reach over $1 billion for the first time. The report said the rise in salary costs resulted from raises and changes in pay, the addition of new personnel to carry out sponsored research and faculty hiring initiatives...
...first intifadah, which raged from 1987 to 1991, that did more than anything else to ensure Arafat's triumphant return to the West Bank under the Oslo agreements, but the local leadership of Fatah in the West Bank and Gaza, who had risked and sacrificed the most to wage that struggle, were largely overlooked when Arafat staffed the new administration with cronies from Tunis, who in many cases conspicuously used their new positions to enrich themselves...
That alumni network, however, is not nearly as deep for the women’s team as it is for the men’s team, whose existence can be traced back over 100 years. To compensate, the players will throw themselves into a number of wage-earning chores, including shoveling snow. They have also received support from University President Lawrence H. Summers, who has lined up some financial backing for the team and attended a mid-season home game to cheer them...
...Daily wage for opium laborers in Afghanistan, twice the average daily pay for unskilled labor in that country...