Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jamieson is a product of the rough-and-tumble earlier days of the Canadian oil business. His father, now 96, is the oldest living veteran of the North West Mounted Police. Jamieson, 63, was born in Medicine Hat, then a frontier outpost on Alberta's bleak prairie with a population of 5,600. Once he shot a bear that wandered too close to the family domicile. He went to the University of Alberta, but determined to become an engineer, transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On his return to Depression-struck Alberta in 1931, he took any work...
Columbia Point is a bleak spit of land that juts into the harbor three miles from downtown Boston. A huge housing project, largely black, is located there, and near by are the heavily Irish working-class neighborhoods of Dorchester. Thus the point seems an appropriate site for the new University of Massachusetts campus, a $130 million, 121-acre complex that will primarily serve students from these and lower-income neighborhoods in the Boston area...
...program is long and demanding; the work is often solitary; and the prospects for employment will remain bleak for at least another decade. Yet we can take heart from the progress that has been made..." --President Bok, commenting on some of the problems in graduate education...
...current dispute centers on an NBC documentary called Pensions: The Broken Promise. Aired in September 1972, the program was a bleak expose of failings in privately administered group-pension plans. Workers told of losing all or most of their pension income through a variety of misfortunes: pre-retirement dismissals, company closings or mergers, the collapse of pension funds because of mismanagement. Correspondent Edwin Newman, who was co-author of the script with NBC Producer David Schmerler, noted near the end of the hour-long broadcast that "there are many good" pension plans. But his conclusion was downbeat: "The situation...
...Hughes Tool Co. Most of all, the TWA-Hughes saga is a damning indictment of the legal system that serves the very rich. Indeed, Justice Burger, dissenting from the Supreme Court's 6-2 pro-Hughes decision, referred to the monstrous litigation as a 20th century version of Bleak House, in which Charles Dickens argued that the "grand principle" of the legal profession is to "make money for itself...