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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee's rejection of Southern, along with its refusal to grant her an extension, prompted Wright to file the complaint with the EEOC and to consider suing the university, Winston D. Kendall, Wright's attorney, said in April. He added that Wright would not alter her original choice of Southern to serve on the grievance committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Extension Denied | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...adjust or arbitrate" it. Once Epps' committee and/or the Faculty Council have approved the constitution, it will be submitted to students for ratification. If 3100 students (a majority of the undergraduate student body) ratify the document, the full Faculty must vote on it because the Dowling proposals would alter student-Faculty committees, and then Corporation approval would be required before the University could fund the council...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Just Another Bureaucracy? | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...Secretary Regan was pushing. Any deal would probably also include changes in the inheritance tax to benefit farmers, faster depreciation write-offs for business, reduction of the maximum tax on unearned income from 70% to 50%, and an increased exclusion for dividend and interest income. The Republicans agreed to alter the personal income tax cuts to give greater relief to middle-income Americans. Explained Wright: "The President, in order to protect his own image, has to have some kind of multiyear approach. We're going to have to yield on that. But we're going to insist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Less Than Perfect 10-10-10 | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW NOW is the difference. What made Vietnam unique not only in the fighting of it by our soldiers but also in the living of it by our people? All we know now is that the Vietnam War was different and that it did fundamentally alter America and Americans: we need to know now how it changed...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Everything We Already Know | 5/8/1981 | See Source »

...decide policy. He wants to measure the "ultra-ultra-ultra-high frequency electromagnetic field" of all concerned individuals since humans give off fields alternating between positive and negative. Thus one could determine, literally, whether people feel positively about an option. His explanation is faulted. Since it appears one cold alter the readings by producing artificial fields, thus changing the national opinion...

Author: By James S. Mcguire, | Title: Visions of Utopia | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

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