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...Boston Herald and parties at the Metro. What Coors has not advertised is a record of discriminatory hiring practices, abusive treatment of employees, hazardous waste dumping and even outright racism that makes it one of the most dispicable companies in the country. Coors' activities have prompted a boycott by many labor, minority, environmentalist, and women's groups nationwide. That boycott deserves the support of the Harvard community...
Tiff Wood: the unluckiest man in rowing. After rowing with the Rude and Smooth, Wood was selected as the spare on the 1976 Olympic team, but never rowed a stroke. He was captain of the 1980 men's team, but the U.S. boycott cost him that chance. He lost out in his bid to become the single sculler for the 1984 Olympic team, and ended up as the spare again...
...hour time difference between the U.S. and Korea, which means that some of the most popular events will not be seen live by a large part of the world audience. NBC hopes to have better luck with the broadcasts than it did in 1980, when a U.S.-led boycott of the Moscow Games resulted in a $34 million loss for the network...
...seven professors who sit on the committee have grown weary, too. Many curtailed summers of research to be in town for hearings that students were going to boycott anyway. Now, five months to the day since most of the Harvard community first heard the letters C-R-R, the committee is still deliberating cases and faces the task of compiling a voluminous report on its investigations...
...move followed a U.S. decision to boycott court proceedings regarding charges that the U.S. was aiding guerillas trying to overthrow Nicaragua's leftist government...