Word: reportable
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Decker said the University must increase the consumer power of its workers--something she said the report's recommendations would...
Both Damon and Affleck appeared well-informed about the labor situation on campus, discussing the findings of the ad hoc committee's report with reporters in detail...
...committee's report stopped short of recommending any minimum wage floor, focusing instead on workers' "total compensation," a term that includes both wages and fringe benefits. On one level, this is a reasonable approach. The purpose of a "living wage" is to insure that workers can live above the poverty line. In many cases, health insurance can be far more valuable toward this end than a small increase in wages...
...Cambridge's largest employers, Harvard has a unique leadership position within the local community; as the nation's premier university, it wields tremendous influence among institutions of higher education. President Rudenstine has done well to approve the recommendations contained within the report, but he should realize that the committee's report has not laid to rest the moral need for a living wage for those Harvard employs...
Things become truly troubling when human beings facing the same difficult circumstances start making equally brutal choices. Anthropologists report that during a three-year period of social upheaval in Bolivia in the 1930s, nearly every mother in an Ayoreo Indian village committed infanticide at least once. In India and China, selective infanticide of baby girls is still commonly, if quietly, practiced. And while there may be less of a history of such killing in the U.S., periodic cases of high-schoolers secretly giving birth and then murdering their infant are proof that such practices know no cultural boundaries...