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...Among the three is a renowned American alpinist who might have been Pérez's greatest hope. Fabrizio Zangrilli, 36, was in the area because he recently finished guiding a climb of K2. "Fabrizio is so acclimatized, and his skill set is so high, that he's probably the only guy situated to pull this off," says Jordan Campbell, spokesman for Marmot Mountain Works, an outdoor-equipment company that sponsors Zangrilli. "He's going to have to climb light and fast and maybe carry Pérez over his shoulder to get him down. But he's done...
...janitors working at FAS are unionized under SEIU, Becker said, and all receive the same baseline wages.The announcement of the hours reductions had noted that roughly 45 percent of the nearly 300 janitors working at FAS were subcontracted, but failed to indicate how the hours reductions were distributed among the workers. Gingo said that he was not knowledgeable about the "specifics [of the reductions] down to individual employees," but noted that Becker's numbers were "consistent" with his understanding that the changes primarily affected subcontracted workers.Subcontracted janitors have been laid off at various sites throughout the University in recent months...
This is what we believe the number to be according to all the events that have taken place in Darfur. There is fighting between the armed forces and the rebels, so there are [a number of deaths] among the rebels and members of the armed forces. There are also tribal conflicts, which are not connected to any ethnic group [in particular]; it is not, as portrayed, an "ethnic war." Most of the intra-tribal fighting in fact is between tribes of Arab origins over resources because years of drought that hit the area made the scarcity of resources one reason...
There was a feeling among your advisors last year as the Bush Administration was winding down that there was a lost opportunity. That if a deal was not struck with Republicans, it couldn't possibly be struck with Democrats who are more hostile towards Sudan. Are you surprised so far by the Obama Administration...
...executives, they describe the steel and mining businesses - in China as well as other developing countries - as industries in which "side deals" involving key principles like executives and government officials are common. Despite Walsh's assertion that there is "no evidence" against the Rio execs, the widespread assumption among steel-industry insiders with experience operating in China is the opposite - that the government will likely be able to produce evidence that is not, as a source put it, "made up out of whole cloth...