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...retail chain Wal-Mart, filed a federal lawsuit accusing the store of sex discrimination. Although over seventy percent of Wal-Mart's hourly employee's are female, they account for only a third of all management. The women allege the retail chain engaged in unfair practices in the training, payment and promotion of its female employees. TIME contributor Barbara Ehrenreich worked at a Wal-Mart in Minnesota doing research for her latest book, "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America" which looks at the lives of minimum wage workers in America. Ehrenreich sat down with TIME.com to talk...
FASTER FOOD When you're jonesing for a Freezy McShake, you don't want to fool around with old-fashioned bills and coins, do you? After a year of testing, burger titan McDonald's will roll out a new cashless payment system in 400 Chicago-area stores. Wave your McDonald's Speedpass over a special reader--based on the same technology that powers highway tollbooth passes--and your tab will be automatically added to your credit-card bill. Now if only Ronald had a fat-free French fry system...
Driscoll says the property would have generated $4.8 million per year in property tax revenue if Harvard had not purchased it and says the University’s payment should at least equal that amount...
University officials say they are still working to form a payment agreement but say that a permanent agreement is not likely...
...think all of the schools would say that they would like the payment to be at the target,” says Paul W. Upson, assistant dean for finance and operations at Harvard Law School...