Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff bases its position on the faulty reasoning that Judge Harmatz's decision was ipso facto legitimate and even-handed, and that the University's appeal would be union-busting of the most dire sort. But if one accepts that the NLRB judge has any legitimacy in the case, one must also accept that he could be fallible--especially after reading his obviously one-sided and almost hysterical decision--and his judgement worthy of appeal...
...biggest accusation the staff throws about is that a legal appeal would be union-busting. Funny, no Pinkerton detectives have been spotted with billy-clubs attacking employees streaming out of Holyoke Center. With the vote so close--it was decided by 44 votes out of 3400--Harvard has a responsibility to pursue another election if it questions the validity of the first one. And if the union is so confident of its mandate, then it should not fear a second vote anyway...
...pandering. The correspondents on 60 Minutes have been called prosecutorial, but they at least come armed with sheaves of evidence. The hot-button journalists of The Reporters and other tabloid shows pursue their prey with little more than inflammatory narration and lurid "re- creations" of the crime. The appeal is to knee-jerk emotions, fears and fantasies of revenge...
There was an election year timeliness to Reagan's turnaround and Congress's overwhelming support for the new Cabinet post. In their frenzy to appeal to 27.5 million U.S. veterans, the politicians seem unconcerned that the cost of transforming the V.A. into a Cabinet department will be $9.9 million. The biggest chunk of that cost will go to changing signs on the 532 V.A. buildings...
...many American high school and college students, the appeal of this land of vaulting ideals and valued indolence is seductive. Surveying their own daily diet of angst, fetid air and befouled shores, students' common response is "When can I move there...