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...spokesperson for the Harvard Office of Labor and Employee Relations said the changes to the contract came in the areas of wage raises and changed vacation and sick day policies...
...Just a generation ago, long-haul travel belonged almost exclusively to the rich or the most diligent of savers. For ordinary, middle-class wage earners, a trip beyond the nearest continent was a once-in-a-lifetime splurge?something aspired to as the crowning extravagance in a modest career. Then in the 1980s, an era of cataclysmic change in the airline industry, overseas fares came tumbling down. As air traffic grew, hotels were built at a far quicker pace than before. Asian tourism boards launched huge, well-funded publicity campaigns, and Western travel media obliged with extensive coverage...
...suggestion, Darst said, is guaranteeing benefits at 110% of the poverty line to individuals who have been employed for 30 years at the minimum wage...
...most important speech a President gives each year, written and rewritten and then polished again. Yet the address George W. Bush gave on Jan. 28 was more consequential than most because he was making a revolutionary case: why a nation that traditionally didn't start fights should wage a pre-emptive war. As Bush noted that night, "Every year, by law and by custom, we meet here to consider the state of the union. This year we gather in this chamber deeply aware of decisive days that lie ahead...
...Pact countries may ease some of the burden on U.S. forces in Iraq, but it's unlikely to allow the U.S. to draw down its own troop commitment there - to put it bluntly, it will take the combat power of the Americans, rather than the Latvians and Fijians, to wage the counterinsurgency...