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Faculty worries were not confined to the prospect of present and future belt-tightening. Mendelsohn also spoke about the need for more comprehensive health-care coverage for Faculty members who retire...
Employees asked about health care benefits, the future of the library’s financial health and mechanics of the initial “belt-tightening” implemented earlier this year...
...letter suggests that fiscal belt-tightening might be necessary to facilitate FAS pushes for growth in facilities and faculty...
...deal with the southwestern town of Pau. The airline is braced for further scraps, even if its bottom line looks healthy in the long run. "Are we expecting a rash of complaints?" says Ryanair's head of communications Paul Fitzsimmons. "Yes." O'Leary had better fasten his seat belt. Showroom Showdown Despite hopes for an upturn, European car sales remain stalled. The manufacturers' response? Slash prices. Less than four months after it launched its new flagship Golf, Volkswagen last week announced it is throwing in free air-conditioning, the equivalent of an 8% discount on its base model. The move...
...Taliban claimed responsibility for a blast last week in which a man wearing an explosives belt leaped onto a Canadian armored vehicle in a crowded Kabul street, killing a soldier and injuring a dozen civilians. The next day, while officials were attending the soldier's funeral, the Taliban struck again. A suicide bomber crashed an explosives-packed taxi into two British army vehicles, killing one soldier, wounding three others and taking the life of an Afghan civilian. A Taliban official, Latif Hakeemi, calling TIME from an undisclosed location, vowed that a wave of suicide attacks will follow. "There...