Word: waging
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Four months after Summers was installed and 10 months after students occupied Mass. Hall as part of the Living Wage campaign under Rudenstine’s tenure, Summers announced a new official interpretation of the University’s policy on acceptable forms of student protest...
Compensation costs have also been on Harvard’s radar, but while salary and wage costs have increased—exceeding $1 billion in 2004 for the first time—Berman said that benefits are the University’s chief concern...
Just as when we first matriculated, we are now faced with an invisible threat to the stable foundations of our society. During this time of apparent peace, we must now wage a new Hot War. We must fight against our permanent and irreversible subjugation to a dysfunctional climate and the resulting pestilence, food shortages, and global poverty. But this Hot War does not require bloodshed or crippling military budgets. This Hot War requires character. We simply must do what obviously needs to be done...
Anti-American sentiment has been increasing in scope and intensity for years, exacerbated by the current administration’s cowboy diplomacy, zealous hegemony, and use of questionable interrogation tactics as we wage the “war on terror”—tactics that make the Koran desecration seem unremarkable. The Newsweek article might have been a catalyst for the recent flare of riots and violence. But for the Bush administration to use this mainstream magazine as a scapegoat for our shameful image abroad is ridiculous...
...course, it isn't just China's undervalued currency that makes its TVs and T shirts so irresistibly cheap to American shoppers. It's the low wages paid to the people who produce them. U.S. policymakers acknowledge that the wage differential won't be erased by a small rise in the yuan's value (say 5%), and they recognize that the Chinese are unlikely to go along with a more consequential one (say 25%). But the Administration feels some heat needs to be put on China to ward off protectionist measures in Congress. Indeed, Alan Greenspan pointed out last week...