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Your staff editorial, however, misstates at least two critical facts. First, you assert that HUCTW employees have been "working three years without any salary increases." In fact, under the HUCTW agreement that took effect in July 1989, total average salary increases exceeded 25 percent over the three-year term of the agreement, and thus provided HUCTW employees with substantial economic progress...
...Once you have achieved economic success, youdon't feel as compelled to assert yourself as aminority with minority needs," she says...
...government is preparing to take a different stance toward science -- and not just because a new Administration is coming to Washington. Long before the election, policymakers were concluding that they should assert more control over research by telling many scientists precisely what to work on. "We've got to do some readjusting," says Guyford Stever, co-chairman of a recent Carnegie Commission study on the future of American science...
...UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID KRAVCHUK was trying to peddle the 67,000-ton aircraft carrier Varyag, nearing completion in the Ukrainian port of Nikolayev. Selling the carrier may be difficult, though. The Russians, not the Ukrainians, paid for construction of the 922-ft.-long vessel, and can be expected to assert ownership...
Sponsored by the socially conscious Dance Umbrella, the Pat Graney Company offers an unmistakably political message in "Faith." The problem with this message, however, is that we've heard it all before: women must struggle to assert their own power and decide upon how far they will go to enhance their physical desirability...