Word: powers
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Decker said the University must increase the consumer power of its workers--something she said the report's recommendations would...
...Within the Cambridge community, Harvard has long been viewed as some sort of amoral juggernaut, gobbling up real estate, intoxicated by its own power and thereby above the standards of simple human decency," Damon said. "Their resistance to a living wage does nothing to counter this characterization...
...push for an extension of the company's May 10 deadline for responding to last Friday's Justice Department proposal. Microsoft will want "months and months" of additional hearings in front of Jackson, who ruled on April 3 that the company had illegally and repeatedly used its monopoly power to stifle innovation. A final decision by Jackson might not come until the end of summer. Even then, any breakup that the judge might call for would be on hold until the appeals process is done. That's why Klein and the states want Jackson's ruling to include immediate restrictions...
Fried's constitutional arguments are that gender violence does not directly affect the national economy (thus VAWA is an invalid exercise of Congress lawmaking power under the Commerce Clause), and that Congress has no authority to use the 14th Amendment to regulate the behavior of individuals (because the 14th Amendment is designed to rein in states, not citizens). Both of these claims can be disproved with empirical evidence. Congress funded a four year fact-finding mission before passing VAWA, where it was determined that employers lose $3 billion a year to domestic violence as a result of workplace absenteeism. That...
...fighters just across the border casts a shadow over Israel's plan to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon without first concluding a land-for-peace deal with Syria. Hezbollah fired Katyushka rockets into the town of Shlomi on Friday, killing one soldier, following Israel's overnight strike on Lebanese power plants. The Israeli raid followed Thursday's rocket attack on Kiryat Shmona - in which another soldier was killed - which came in retaliation for Israeli artillery attacks earlier in the week in southern Lebanon...