Word: agreements
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...than state employees. In addition, many state "consultants" are really state workers who provide vital services such as health care, social services and infrastructure enhancment--and who don't get expensive benefits. Throwing these people--by no means fatcats--out of their jobs will do nobody any good. In agreement with both William F. Weld '66 and John R. Silber, we urge a NO vote on Question...
...college official called final agreement on the contract "very likely," but Chiang said yesterday that students were cautious about embracing the deal until they can be sure that the school will deliver the Hampshire House location as promised...
Once the budget agreement is safely tucked away, probably this week, the lawmakers will be free to go home and schmooze with their constituents -- but given the mood in the land, they may dread the prospect. "Look, you tell me, when is the last time you saw a Senator walk into a bar to sit down and talk with the working people?" asks Frank Gasparik, a California salesman and part-time songwriter. "Never. They're probably afraid somebody'd hit them with a bar stool." A reasonable fear, if pollsters are right about the level of voter disgust with...
There is at least a chance that it may do that. The routing of Aoun eliminated the greatest obstacle to implementation of the Taif peace agreement, a plan approved by Lebanon's National Assembly a year ago that would give the country's Muslim majority an equal share of power with the long-dominant Christians. Aoun, who escaped during the fighting to the French embassy, where he remained holed up last week, had revolted against the accord because it provided no timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian forces in Lebanon, who number 40,000. France has granted Aoun asylum...
Whatever budget agreement finally emerges from Congress and the White House, it can be counted on to continue the rapid growth in spending for Social Security and other programs for those 65 and older. Which means that it is almost certain to widen the gap between what the government spends on the elderly and what it spends on children...