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Last week the sad cycle of recovery and relapse grew worse. On Tuesday, physicians discovered that Neves was suffering a strangulated hernia, which made him susceptible to a breakdown of tissue. Once again he was operated on. Two days later the physicians discovered that their patient had a new infection in his lungs, which could be fatal. More surgery was performed, this time to drain two abscesses. It was Neves' fifth operation in 21 days. As relatives and friends prepared themselves for the worst, Neves began to show signs of growing stronger, and was said by a spokesman...
American companies operating under the Sullivan Code have also pressured the South African government into Labor reforms. The government's 1979 Wiehahn Commission on Labor Legislation recommended the breakdown of apartheid in the work place because ethical codes like the Sullivan Principles meant that "current practice is no longer in line with legislation." As a result, this could "only create an embarassing situation for South Africa...
...Ukraine, an investigation into the breakdown of tractors led to the discovery that quality-control experts at a tractor-parts plant were routinely approving defective goods in order to meet (or surpass) production quotas. They thereby became eligible for bonuses, scrolls of honor and other incentives. Most startling of all, one of the suppliers had an officially sanctioned quota for defective merchandise: 5% of production...
...page I story. Undergraduate Council officials are reported to be hoping that they can keep secret the most telling message from the recent House referendum: the House-by-House breakdown of results. Council members and Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of the College for the House system, are quoted as saying they are afraid of letting freshmen know what each House thinks of the current preference-based selection system. "Anything that would alter students' choices in advance of a lottery would only cause more anxiety," Dingman says...
...another page I story, Dingman is quoted as refusing to supply the breakdown of transfers accepted and rejected by House, "because he said he does not want these statistics to reflect poorly on any Houses in particular...