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...knowing. The tech-laden NASDAQ index is up 50% this year. That's right, 50%, and it's not all that unusual. In successive years since the last recession (1991), the NASDAQ has risen 56.8%, 15.5%, 14.7%, fallen 3.2%, risen 39.9%, 22.7%, 21.6% and 39.6%. It has beaten the Standard & Poor's 500 six of the past nine years (including this...
Bial's index is not meant to replace the SAT or any other current standard, Bial said, but is instead a "tool that can be used to help college admissions officers broaden the way they assess and admit applicants...
...hour standard is taken directly from the Cambridge living wage ordinance, approved by the City Council in May. The ordinance established a minimum wage of $10 per hour for all city workers, as well as employees of city contractors. According to the Eviction-Free Zone, one of three organizations which drafted the ordinance, $10 per hour was chosen because it was the lowest wage paid any unionized city employee. As such, it was seen as a minimal standard for a living wage. In fact, studies on the local cost of living show just how minimal it is. According...
...city of Cambridge and every other city that has passed a living wage ordinance requires subcontractors to meet its wage standard. Mechanisms have been developed in all these cities to force subcontractors to pay decent wages, and there is no reason to believe that Harvard could not employ similar means. In fact, Harvard already directly participates in determining the wages of its subcontracted workers through contract negotiations. As one of the largest and most powerful institutions in the state, Harvard has no trouble influencing the firms with which it does business...
...said Microsoft unfairly ensured that its Internet Explorer, which includes the Java virtual machine, became the Java standard by offering a discount to computer manufacturers that installed only Internet Explorer and thus left out Netscape Navigator, the browser's main competitor...