Re: Why Get an Education?
- From: m.purves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:25:00 -0000
Melodious Thunk wrote:
> <snip>
<more snip>
> I forgot, you're on Maui, right? So the situation with Matson workers
> receiving those sorts of wages was in the evening t.v. news (in
> Honolulu, I think I recall Lee Cataluna talking about the story, so
> that
I remember that, but I don't remember when. I do remember thinking
"Oh sh*t" when I heard about the possibility of a dock strike.
I haven't been here long enough to remember the last dock strike,
but I do remember there not being (cheap, for a lot of people
'regular')
read on the shelves after 9/11. Bread comes by air. Do you have any
idea how much of the other stuff comes by sea and how long it takes
for the stores to run out (it's on the order of hours, if not minutes
if
there's a rush on it. You can see that each time a hurricane watch
is issued).
> would be three or four years ago). RCUH is the Research Corporation of
> the University of Hawaii (I think) and they regularly take out a large
yes. They pay e.g. me. They pay a bunch of people in a bunch of places,
not just at UH itself.
(RCUH is the 'for profit' arm of UH and does payroll processing for
non-profit educational <something ot other>s, like some of the
observatories)
> block advertisement in the sunday Honolulu Advertiser.
And the Trib, and probably a bunch of other newspapers around
the state, depending on where the jobs are. As most of the jobs
are probably on Oahu I'd expect their chunk in the Advertiser to
be the biggest.
> <snip>
Maren
Palms, Etc.: Tropical Plant Seeds - Hand-made Jewelry - Plants &
Lilikoi
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~maren/palms_etc/
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