Word: caring
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Today there is no ROTC training at Harvard; the former ROTC building now houses a day-care center. Army officers are no longer granted the course curriculum. We view this as a considerable improvement, and a vindication of the goals of the '69 strike. However, Harvard has become nationally and internationally known for its refusal to divest its holdings in companies doing business in South Africa. Long after many other universities, city and state governments, pension funds and other institutions have fully divested, long after Rev. Sullivan and other advocates of gradual change in South Africa have come to support...
...Western experts will no doubt oppose readmitting the Soviet Union to the W.P.A. until Moscow shakes up the psychiatric leadership and unequivocally renounces past practices. Though grounds for skepticism remain, there are signs that the current Soviet reform wave will lead to more humane and enlightened forms of psychiatric care...
...their glory days, they patrolled Philadelphia's mean streets, searched buildings and sniffed for bombs and narcotics. When they retired, the hounds of the Philadelphia police department's canine unit traditionally got pensions in the form of free dog food and veterinary care. But on March 1, Police Commissioner Willie Williams eliminated the benefits of 45 wet-nosed retirees to shave $13,500 from the department's $262 million budget. "When you are looking at cutting services to the homeless," said police spokesman Captain Richard De Lise, "how can you justify feeding dogs...
...WORD MEANING LEVERAGED BUYOUT? Drawing up a contract that is precisely equivalent in two languages, English and Russian, can be a mind- bending exercise. One problem: there are no words in the Russian language for many Western business terms. Michael Bonsignore, president of Honeywell International, took special care in preparing contracts for the equipment that his company is providing for four Soviet fertilizer plants. Says he: "We translated our English documents into Russian, then had someone else translate them back into English to make sure that we were really saying to them exactly what we wanted...
When Andrei Fedorov ran a state-owned restaurant in Moscow, he made 190 rubles ($304) a month even if no one came to dinner. "I didn't care if we had customers or not," he says with a shrug. "I didn't care if the service was good." Two years ago, he started his own now popular bistro, Kropotkinskaya 36, just off Sadovaya Ring Road in the Soviet capital. Fedorov pays himself about 850 rubles ($1,360) a month, nearly four times the average Soviet salary. But he works twice as hard as he ever did as a government employee...