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...arrival of Applicon has not produced the sort of worker backlash that might have been expected. Adapting to the new techniques was initially difficult, but now many of the draftsmen disdain the traditional drawing board. Says Ron Hendricks, 25, a Koltanbar draftsman: "I prefer what we have now. It takes everything out of drawing that was tedious. We never have to start from scratch any more." Adds one of his co-workers happily: "Once you learn how to use the system, it's great." Koltanbar's principal customer seems to think so too. At the GMC Truck & Coach...
WHEN Chariots of Fire appeared last month in the New York Film Festival, it was greeted with hats-off applause and wild huzzahs. Recently a backlash has begun, with suggestions that this might not, after all, be the film of the year. The revisionism seems entirely appropriate...
...CONSERVATIVE BACKLASH leaves questions about more than the morality of the Reagan administration's dealings with the South African government. Other questions abound, especially about the possibility of cooperation with a country growing increasingly intransigent...
Before the partial retractions were made, a backlash against the minority demands had already begun. Student Assembly officers said a majority of undergraduates might not ratify the council's constitution if it contained a controversial minority representation clause. And in a meeting yesterday with leaders of the constitutional drafting committee, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, and John E. Dowling '57, professor of Biology, argued that special seats for minorities would "violate the spirit" of the Dowling Report...
...appeared shaken after the vote, said blind support of rent control could create a backlash of opposition. "I had the choice of making a simplistic statement, and I decided not to. I'm sorry I wasn't persuasive enough," she said