Word: waging
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...than Bangladesh's. But even if its currency rose against the dollar, China would still have tremendous advantages, as shown by data compiled in an International Monetary Fund working paper. The average Chinese garment-industry worker was paid $1,600 in 2001, more than double his Indian counterpart's wage and four times the money earned by the Bangladeshi. Despite the higher pay, the study found, the Chinese worker's productivity was significantly higher, adding $5,000 a year in value to the garments he processed, compared with $2,600 for his Indian equivalent and $900 for the Bangladeshi...
...Governor was in combat mode. Of all the legacies of dysfunction he had inherited from his predecessor, Gray Davis, the situation in the prisons was one of the most flagrant. Big campaign donations from the prison guards' union to Davis had ensured that the guards in 2002 won 34% wage increases over five years, and with overtime many were earning fat salaries; one pulled in more than the state's attorney general. But the work practices of the guards lagged. They seemed unable to curb gang violence among the state's 164,000 inmates and were admonished by a judge...
...bring jobs back to the state," says Richard Costigan, the Governor's legislative secretary. Early in his administration, Schwarzenegger pushed through reforms in the state's workers'-compensation system, whose spiraling costs had been a major complaint of business owners. He also vetoed bills to raise the minimum wage and force smaller companies to provide health insurance for all their employees...
...chaos of postwar Iraq forced U.S. troops to wage alleyway fights with insurgents while trying to rebuild a war-torn nation--neither of which can be accomplished in 70-ton M1 tanks. Instead, commanders turned to the successor to the jeep, the 20-year-old High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), as the humvee is officially known. With canvas doors and a skimpy skin of sheet metal, most humvees are designed to move small numbers of troops quickly. After a 1993 mine blast killed four U.S. soldiers in Somalia in their thin-skinned humvee, the Army began buying armored versions...
After the largely successful living wage campaign came to an end, Mackinnon became a central player at HarvardWatch, a student and alumni watchdog agency that “keeps tabs on Harvard finances and governance,” she says. Her research for the organization delved deeply into the involvement of Harvard Corporation member Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65 in the collapse of Enron Energy...