Word: performing
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...report states that of the University's 12,722 regular employees, only 372, about three percent, earn less than $10 per hour, and all are represented by unions. Of the University's 2,000 subcontracted service workers, employees of outside firms who perform custodial, security, parking or dining hall duty at Harvard, about 500 earn less than...
...Committee finds itself in agreement with the underlying premise of the Living Wage Campaign--that workers on the Harvard campus should be paid fair and competitive compensation for the jobs they perform and should be treated with dignity as part of the larger University community," it reads...
...Leroy Carhart, the man challenging the Nebraska law, is a 58-year old retired Air Force lieutenant colonel. When the Nebraska legislature passed a law against performing partial-birth abortions--in fact a procedure medically known as dilation and extraction (D&X)-- Carhart found himself facing 20 years in jail for performing these abortions. That's twice the jail time he would have faced for performing abortions before Roe v. Wade. Carhart is the only doctor in Nebraska who will perform abortions in the second-trimester, before the fetus is viable. Roe v. Wade already allows states...
While the Nebraska ban does allow the procedure when it would save a woman's life, it has no protections for a woman's health. Therefore, a doctor would be required to perform a potentially unsafe abortion if this procedure were banned. By failing to take into account this eventuality, the Nebraska law devalues the life, health and safety of women...
...well. Doctors like Carhart believe it is sometimes the safest way--least harmful to the woman's reproductive system--to remove a fetus of that size. The problem, doctors argue, is that state laws banning this method use language so vague that it effectively makes it illegal to perform most abortions at that stage...