Word: waging
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...Your domestic popularity has rebounded. What's your strategy in the near term? We certainly have to continue the reform process. We have strongly reformed the labor market and built a really huge low-wage sector. By reducing long-term unemployment subsidies and benefits, we will have resources that can be invested in education and training. We are no longer going to live with the situation where a lot of unemployed people hover in a market where nobody sees them or does anything for them. We've also carried out the biggest tax reform in modern German history, returning...
...impose their beliefs on others. The narrowing of the separation of church and state in the U.S. is a frightening trend that conjures up images of religious persecution rather than religious freedom. It is a mystery to me how people who claim to be followers of Jesus can wage war, seek to disenfranchise those who differ from them, and justify torture...
...meantime, the problem of union rights remains Harvard’s problem, too. Four years after the living wage sit-in, Harvard management has been slowly but surely replacing union workers in key sectors of the workforce. The last seven unionized security guards were laid off last year. And four female janitors, all union members, recently came to work to find their own jobs outsourced. They were reinstated only after large worker-student protests. If workers in these sectors try to organize anew this year, Harvard has a moral and legal obligation to recognize their right...
When he turned sixteen, Ferreira dropped out of high school and began working at a pool hall that used to exist in Inman Square, earning $1.95 per hour, which he says was a good wage at the time...
...where to draw borders, the status of Jerusalem, and more immediately the future of Israeli settlements and the seperation fence, and even steps required to sustain a truce. The reason? The basis of Abbas?s truce declaration was not a new commitment by the Palestinian security services to wage war on militant groups like Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade, but a voluntary truce or ?hudna? adopted by those groups in exchange for Israel agreeing to end attacks on their leaders, ease conditions in Palestinian territories and free Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails...