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...norm, Ratliff is no exception. "We are living at a precipice," he insists, and letter after letter rails against the MX missile, the concept of limited nuclear war, or draft registration. But though the days are dark Ratliff says men must steel themselves to action. "Whether we can avert tragedy I don't know. I do know we ought to be moving in the right direction. Where's there's life there's hope, and anyway humans have never had a guarantee on tomorrow," he says. And, he adds, "If we go down, then we ought to go down fighting...
Cambridge seemed a Gdansk on the Charles this week, as labor unrest continued, but the city did manage to end one strike and narrowly avert another, at least for the time being...
Representatives of the Cambridge Teachers Association (CTA) and the city began meeting late last evening in an attempt to reach tentative agreement on a new contract and avert the threatened strike...
City councilors and school committee members--working overtime to end one local strike and avert another--waved and smiled as striking workers of Local 195, Independent Public Employees Association, and the Cambridge Teachers Association--which may walk out Friday--marched...
Members of the electricians' union whose work is vital to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) red line extension project, voted Saturday to avert a strike, settling with the National Electrical Contractor's Association (NECA...