Letters to the Editor: Public sector wage freeze is alarming
11 May, 2021 09:00 PM
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Rotorua Daily Post I find it alarming that our illustrious servants in Wellington have decided to extend a wage freeze affecting the likes of health and education at a time when we are in a rebuilding phase following the financially punitive lockdowns of the past 15 months.
What are they thinking? Surely, it s fundamental in a rebuilding stage to have at least these two sectors performing with a sense that they are supported and appreciated.
Public gratitude displayed in flowers and encouraging emails puts no extra bread on the table.
Rocket Lab s Peter Beck reveals details of second retrieval mission, dismisses IPO ambulance chasers
12 May, 2021 05:40 AM
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Rocket Lab chief executive Peter Beck. Photo / Supplied Rocket Lab chief executive Peter Beck has revealed more details of his company s second rocket retrieval mission - which could be as soon as Saturday when a 10-day launch window opens - and told media that everything is on track for his company s US$4.1 billion ($6b) Nasdaq listing in the second quarter.
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The listing will be through a merger with Cayman Islands-incorporated Vector Acquisition, an example of the spac (special-purpose acquisition company or blank cheque company ) phenomenon that has recently become de rigueur for tech listings in the US because, in the manner of a reverse listing, it eases red tape, and lowers costs and disclosure thresholds.
Netflix hit Sons of Sam re-examines New York s summer of terror
12 May, 2021 07:02 AM
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David Berkowitz was arrested in New York on August 10, 1977. Photo / AP
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By: Candace Sutton
It was the summer of 1976, around 1.10am on July 29, when two young women were sitting in a car in Pelham Bay, a neighbourhood of the Bronx, in the northern part of New York City.
Jody Valenti, 19, and Donna Lauria, 18, a nursing and a medical student, were sitting in Valenti s Oldsmobile in front of Lauria s home, discussing the holidays and their futures.
Lauria s parents had just arrived home after an evening out, inviting Valenti upstairs before they went inside.