Word: waging
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...think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that,” the note continued, adding that “under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted” and that “their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low [sic] compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City...
...Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London springs to mind, but, as Wynhausen acknowledges, this compelling inside account has a more recent precursor. In 1998, American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich set off for low-wage America, posing as a housewife newly returned to work and taking whatever unskilled jobs she could get for her best-seller, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Inspired to try the same thing in Australia, Wynhausen took a year off work, invented a c.v. and started knocking on doors...
...colleagues are treated. Her co-workers urge her to be careful, for fear that she'll lose shifts or even her job. As Wynhausen admits, having a career and a mortgage-free home to return to means she can never experience the low-wage world as its inhabitants do. She befriends a few people - and reveals her project to them when she quits. But most of her co-workers treat her with suspicious reserve; some, fearing that as a new worker she'll take their shifts, are positively hostile. Sharing a break or a sandwich is as close...
...dictatorial regime of General Omar al-Bashir continues to wage genocide in Sudan against its own black African population, students at Harvard are not sitting by quietly. Over 700 students, alumni, and faculty are demanding that Harvard’s massive endowment fund stop investing in companies doing business with al-Bashir...
...institution of higher learning and more like a Fortune 500 company (or perhaps a cabinet-level department). Summers might boast that his methods cut through red tape; indeed, he compared Harvard to a Ford factory in explaining to classmates at my freshman barbecue why the matter of a living wage was for administrators alone to debate. But academic inquiry requires a tenure and governance system that involves Faculty in decision-making, so that decisions that affect Harvard’s academic fate (say, what buildings go on a new campus) are welcomed by those who actually teach...