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...first strike, FBU leader Andy Gilchrist had suggested they might accept 16%. The employers, at the instructions of the British government, demanded that the firemen first agree to modernize the service by, among other things, taking on more first-aid tasks - even training as paramedics - and changing inflexible shift patterns. The two sides cobbled together an agreement and submitted it to the government late into Thursday night. But the government, which must approve any deal, decided the firemen hadn't given enough. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said the agreement would have required "a blank check," which...
...This shift in policy caused much upheaval both within and beyond the campus, igniting student protests and reactions of anger from faculty members who voted for the policy without being informed of the magnitude of the change. Pressured to take action, the administration created a new committee to review the College’s responses to sexual assault. The committee will present a final report to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and the faculty by this coming April. The committee, called the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (CASAH...
...parallel shift in the culture suggests that Clinton-era values are no longer America's. Though a baby boomer, Bush rejects the instant-gratification ethic embraced by Clinton, the nation's first baby boomer President. Bush went from party-hearty frat boy to hard liquor--drinking Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (until he shaped up in his 40s) without stopping to dabble in the counterculture or go anywhere in a VW bus. He often laments not being one of the Greatest Generation he so admires (although he was no more up front about not going to Vietnam than...
...course, the Hy-wire is just a prototype, and getting the first production units on the road by 2010 would require the notoriously sluggish auto industry to shift gears a lot faster than usual. For one thing, the roadside infrastructure that fuels and services today's gas guzzlers would have to be redesigned to dispense hydrogen and reprogram faulty control systems. But if the result were a fleet of safe, fuel-efficient, nonpolluting cars and trucks that reduced or eliminated the world's dependence on fossil fuel, it would be worth the effort. --By Anita Hamilton
...walk and a double briefly shift Morris’ attention back to the television from the hypothetical situations where the mind of a statistics professor is wont to dwell. But as a J.D. Drew fly ball to centerfield leaves the runners stranded and the Cardinals scoreless in the first, Morris returns to his chart. Taking out a mechanical blue pencil and scientific calculator, Morris lays out the formula for the new all-in-one offensive statistic he has developed, Runs Per Game...