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Democracy in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh was a three-time loser last week. In three consecutive one-day sessions of the state assembly in Hyderabad, the capital, members of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) Party and defectors from the opposition party shouted obscenities, set firecrackers and otherwise proved so disruptive that each meeting had to be postponed. The sessions were intended to let former Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao, 61, who was deposed Aug. 16 by Gandhi forces, prove that his dismissal was illegal. The gatherings were also to be a test of political...
When the union that represents Harvard's Food Service workers signed a contract with the University last summer--after a one-day flash strike--one of the provisions they won was an agreement that Harvard not sub-contract any of its work out to outside firms if any union employees are laid off or take a cut in hours...
When the union that represents Harvard's Food Service workers signed a contract with the University last summer--after a one-day flash strike--one of the provisions they won was an agreement that Harvard not subcontract any of its work out to outside firms if any union employees are laid off or take a cut in hours...
When the union that represents Harvard's Food Service workers signed a contract with the University last summer after a one-day flash strike--one of the provisions they won was an agreement that Harvard not subcontract any of its work out to outside firms if any union employee laid off or take a cut in hours...
...anyone else. After moderately heavy trading on the first three days of the week, market volume on Thursday hit 172.8 million shares, smashing the previous one-day record of 159.99 million set on Jan. 5. The Dow Jones went up 31.47 points, the highest single-day increase in nearly two years. Then on Friday, traders came back ready for more. During the first hour after the market's opening, 72.6 million shares changed hands. By the end of the day, traders had obliterated their one-day-old record by exchanging 236.6 million shares. In the process they drove...