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34936 Hopkins sit-in -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 1, 2000 Johns Hopkins Students Stage a Sit-In to Demand Higher Pay for Campus Workers By SCOTT CARLSON Students at the Johns Hopkins University started a sit-in Monday in an administration building to call for higher wages to be paid to support-staff members at the institution. About 20 members of the Student-Labor Action Committee entered the building Monday around noon, and some fastened themselves together at the neck using U-shaped bicycle lo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 1 07:00:23 PST 2000

34937 Max on the budget -- rank: 1000

The pathologically shy Max Sawicky didn't mention his column for The American Prospect's website. The latest one, dated Feb 9, is at <http://www.prospect.org/columns/sawicky/sa000209.html>. In it, Max says: >The prospect of large tax cuts died last year. One sign is the >current success of Senator John McCain in the Republican >presidential primaries. His proposed tax cut is in the same ballpark >as Clinton's. Evidently the conservative crusade for huge tax cuts >is over. Th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 1 06:54:03 PST 2000

34938 US pennypinching -- rank: 1000

[As if official debt-relief efforts weren't already marred by onerous conditionality and chintzy financing....] Wall Street Journal - March 1, 2000 Penny-Pinching Blamed For Hurting Relief Efforts By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The American-led international debt-relief effort for poor nations is running low on money because of U.S. penny-pinching, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said. The result, Mr. Summers said, is that some reform-minded de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 1 06:07:09 PST 2000

34939 Kohler reshaping IMF? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug, wasn't that the thesis of that BBC analysis you posted on the list >back when the US and EU were fighting over the next IMF MD? I think it was, but it was blissfully unsourced, which could mean it came from Eurocrats who don't want to be named, or straight out of the reporter's head. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 30 11:18:12 PDT 2000

34940 Questions for you Nader Fans -- rank: 1000

TRox51 at aol.com wrote: >Including you, Doug: > >1. Don't you think its just the least bit hypocritical of Nader to >say he wants to focus on how US labor laws make it difficult to >organize unions when he himself has used those laws and the system >to stifle unions at his own shop (and not only at Multinational >Monitor)? > >2. Isn't how a man like Nader treats employees relevant to a >movement that is supposedly trying to create an alternative, more >democrat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 30 11:15:15 PDT 2000

34941 Kohler reshaping IMF? -- rank: 1000

[The PR campaign intensifies. Love the way the IMF is blaming the WB for pushing "hotly disputed" adjustment plans!] New York Times - June 30, 2000 I.M.F. Is Expected to Ease Demands on Debtor Nations By JOSEPH KAHN WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The International Monetary Fund, which has ordered developing nations to enact wrenching reforms as the price for emergency aid in recent years, is likely to curtail the demands it makes of clients who borrow money in the future, a senior fund officia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 30 09:55:33 PDT 2000

34942 Nader -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Yeah, sure. There are some clangers. But still and all, I think you'd >have to be a real worser not to like this speech. Even his union stuff is >good. And his litany of campaign stops seems to signify a high commitment >to campaigning, and to visiting places that don't normally get visited. Hey, I think I'm going to vote for the guy. With lots of reservations, but 1) it's a protest vote that's not too painfully embarrassing, and 2) maybe the Greens will get ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 29 16:21:43 PDT 2000

34943 hedonic price measures -- rank: 1000

[a bit of statistical arcana...] Grant's Interest Rate Observer - May 26, 2000 Secrets of the GDP Technology is widely regarded as the greatest single source of the U.S. economic achievement of the past decade. But there is another mighty wellspring, a purely technical and statistical one. This is the method by which technological innovation is represented in the national income accounts. In the analysis that follows, our favorite sons of Harvard, James Medoff and Andrew Harless, examine the dis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 29 16:06:28 PDT 2000

34944 Bourdieu & Co. on Euro social movement -- rank: 1000

[See <http://www.raisons.org> for more. This is from Pierre Bourdieu & his crowd.] PROPOSALS FOR A CHARTER FOR THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL MOVEMENT For the social movements that have emerged throughout Europe over the last few years to take root and flourish, it is necessary to coordinate, initially on a european level, the various groups - trade unions, associations and NGOs devoted to human and social rights - within an organized network, whose form has yet to be invented, and which will be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 29 10:26:23 PDT 2000

34945 Nader -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >Ralph's acceptance speech at the Green festivities is available at: > >http://www.votenader.com/press/000625acceptance_speech.html > >Anything in there which shouldn't be, or which should be there, and isn't? I thought of you as I read this part: >Through television, the Internet stores, samples and mailings, these >companies convey their message to the little ones. They teach them >how to crave junk food, thrill to violent and pornographic >pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 29 10:05:00 PDT 2000

34946 Fed: that worker pool too shallow! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/BoardDocs/Press/General/2000/20000628/default.htm> Release Date: June 28, 2000 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee at its meeting today decided to maintain the existing stance of monetary policy, keeping its target for the federal funds rate at 6-1/2 percent. Recent data suggest that the expansion of aggregate demand may be moderating toward a pace closer to the rate of growth of the economy's potential to produce. Although core measures of pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 28 15:20:49 PDT 2000

34947 Jonesing for apocalypse -- rank: 1000

[posted from a non-sub'd address] From: "Mark Jones" <mark at jones118.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:57:42 +0100 Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >the Japanese working class rise up & > make a socialist revolution (of some kind). ... The US... The Japs would bomb NY with MIRV'ed Citizen watches and other precision objects until the Yanks gave up, surely, which is more or less what's happening anyway. The question really is what will happen when the lights go out ev ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 28 14:08:42 PDT 2000

34948 [PEN-L:20877] Socialism & Ecology in Japan (was Re: Reply to Carrol Cox) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Socialism will collapse in a few years, or else, in an even more >unlikely event of the Japanese victory, the battered socialist >government will have to build everything back up from scratch amidst >ruins, _who knows how_. > >And this if America doesn't bomb Red Japan back to the Stone Age >from the get-go. Damn, I give up. Only I think I'm too old to sell out, and the dot.com's aren't hiring anymore. Now I really give up. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 28 12:38:36 PDT 2000

34949 British academic faces stern test at World Bank -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >The World Bank is quite a hotbed of radicalism these days. I see that >the chief theoretician of the 'International Socialists' Nigel Harris is >working for them, too. And a bunch of ex-CPGBers think and flack for Tony Blair. The WB is interested in a softer PR line, but no serious change in policy. Stiglitz and Kanbur, who are hardly radicals, still posed too much of a threat, so Summers booted them. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 28 11:51:37 PDT 2000

34950 KaplanCollege.com -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 28, 2000 Expanding Its Reach in Higher Education, Kaplan Buys Quest, a Chain of Commercial Colleges By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Kaplan Inc., a test-preparation company that has edged into higher education with its online law school and other ventures, announced on Tuesday that it plans to buy a company that owns a chain of 30 commercial colleges that specialize in business, information technology, and health care. Kaplan, a division of the Washington Pos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 28 11:33:56 PDT 2000