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...however, no fewer than 1,000 resolutions from union locals demanded an end to the no-strike clause and the slow arbitration process. Union President I.W. Abel managed to prevent the issue from coming to a vote, but he will be under continued severe pressure from the membership to abolish the clause. Abel's reasoned brand of trade unionism is being challenged by militant union members, who are angry about inflation, unemployment, student protest and the direction of society in general. As evidence of the rank and file's mutinous mood, several of the union's largest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Next, a Steel Strike? | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...since Pusey made that statement disorders at Harvard have increased. Last year saw attacks by radicals on the Center for International Affairs, on ROTC, which the Faculty voted to abolish last year but which lingers on while being phased out; and on the Cambridge Project, a planned program by which Harvard and M. I. T. would join to do research for the Defense Department...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Harvard-The Divided University | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

That Harvard raise the wages of all painters' helpers to those of painters and abolish the painters' helper category...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Harvard-The Divided University | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...amendment would apply in other ways. It would abolish discrimination against women applying to state colleges and universities, such as higher scholastic standards required of women applicants. It would also abolish restrictions on married women in jobs -for example the refusal to promote women because of fear they will become pregnant and leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Victory in an Old Crusade | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...year, or 5% in dividends. But Kelsonian economics calls for a return of at least 20%, or $4,000 a year-a level that Kelso figures could take 5,000,000 families off the welfare rolls in five years. To increase the dividend payout, Kelso would gradually abolish corporate income taxes and require companies to distribute all of their earnings to stockholders. Kelso maintains that the Government's revenue loss would be temporary and bearable. One reason is that rising personal-income-tax collections would greatly offset the gradual decline in corporate tax take. He also foresees a decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Make Everybody Richer | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

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