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About 15 per cent of the students in any class will only qualify for one or no exemptions from the Core, Wilcox said...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Core Committee Will Find Exemptions for Students | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

Turnout in the election was relatively light, with less than 60 per cent of Boston's 242,000 registered voters going to the polls...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: Mayor White Wins 4th Term, Trounces Timilty Across City | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

White, who garnered 55 per cent of the vote to Timilty's 45 per cent, told cheering supports. "This is the first time in 12 years that this city has not been divided...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: Mayor White Wins 4th Term, Trounces Timilty Across City | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

White supporters started dancing and singing early in the evening, when the first returns showed White out ahead by the 10-per-cent margin he kept up all night...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: Mayor White Wins 4th Term, Trounces Timilty Across City | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

When contracts expired in January, hourly paid workers earned $3.70 per hour, up from $2.00 in 1970-- an 85 per cent increase. But consumer prices shot up 71 per cent in the same period so farm workers earned only 13 cents more per hour in 1979, adjusted for inflation, than they earned nine years earlier. Workers who labor on the piece rate this year--like lettuce harvesters--took in 6 cents less per box, adjusted for inflation, than they earned nine years ago. Growers paid only 6 1/2 cents per hour into the union's family health plan--about...

Author: By Julie Mondaca, | Title: Stop the Red Coach | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

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