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...previous cases, spanning two decades, the NLRB ruled consistently that the prospect of collective bargaining between students and teachers was "an anathema" and the "very antithesis" of the educational process, according to Yale's motion...

Author: By Jay S. Kimmelman, | Title: Yale's Treatment Of TAs on Trial In NLRB Hearing | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...accepts students pursuing a masters degree in business education. In addition to the first class of MBA students who will graduate this year, Oxford also has initiated an undergraduate program for the joint study of economics and management. If British intellectual elitism makes the discipline of business studies an anathema, why do such programs exist? Apparently, Oxford is averse to the concept of a business school, not to the study of business itself...

Author: By Joshua A. Katzin, | Title: Cents and Sensibility | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

...executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers who was frequently used to support President Clinton's assurances the procedure is uncommon, said he lied about just how often the abortions occur. The admission, the GOP believes, gives the bill new life by making it clear the practice, anathema to the public, is more readily performed than previously believed. Republican optimism was high the revelation would encourage Clinton to reverse his opposition to the bill that he vetoed last year. Because of the news, proponents believe that the bill, identical to the one sent to the President last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Round Two | 3/5/1997 | See Source »

...victims of the Holocaust and their families. The Swiss Foundation for Solidarity, to be set up in the coming year, would use proceeds from Swiss gold reserves that could produce several hundred million dollars a year, all while avoiding the use of Swiss taxpayers' money, an idea that is anathema to many conservatives. But Koller was careful to characterize the fund as a broad humanitarian measure--not a reparation. The money, he said, would help "victims of poverty and catastrophes, of genocide and other severe breeches of human rights such as, of course, victims of the Holocaust." Such vagueness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forced Generosity | 3/5/1997 | See Source »

...moguls are like teenagers: they want movies with big kicks and fast returns. That makes the slow-fuse payoff of the quieter people pictures anathema. "Normal thinking at the studios is if audiences aren't there the first weekend, they're not coming," says Gramercy's Russell Schwartz. "But our films have to be discovered. We live by word of mouth." And Oscar has the biggest mouth around. The day after the nominations were announced, the box office for Shine jumped 40% from the previous Wednesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: INDEPENDENTS' DAY | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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