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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HUCTW filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), calling for an election. The NLRB requires that the union bring in signed support cards from 30 percent of eligible workers to qualify for an election, yet HUCTW leaders said they have already garnered signed cards from a majority of workers--which, if translated into votes, would be enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let Them Decide | 3/15/1988 | See Source »

...debate opened, the Democratic leadership sought to quickly bring the measure to the floor, one day after the Senate Ways and Means Committee endorsed the bill in an unusual Sunday session...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Takes up Health Bill | 3/15/1988 | See Source »

...Fein said that all three of these issues have in fact worked to prevent rather than promote Jewish unity. "Socialism and higher education did not bring the proper redemption, and the most disappointing failure was God," Fein said. "Today, the status of God is divisive rather than unifying," he said...

Author: By Charles P. Kempf, | Title: Author Speaks on Judaism | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...clarify that PBH does depend on any support Harvard can lend. Without the Harvard Development office showing us how to fundraise, giving us a list of alumni, and offering the use of telephones, we would never have been able to bring our alumni drive from 15,000 in the past years to 38,000 last year. Without President Bok's active support in attending Endowment events and encouraging Harvard alumni to give to PBH, our endowment campaign would not have been as successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Budget | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...number according to how light or dark it is. Thus on a scale of one to ten, a dark smudge or scratch might be assigned a nine or ten, while a lighter stroke becomes a five or six. These numbers can then be manipulated to filter out "noise" and bring out hidden features in the text. For example, all the pixels with high numbers can be changed to zeros to make them disappear, while the lighter pixels representing parts of actual letters can be darkened by boosting their values from five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: When The Dead Are Revived | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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