Word: cente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 700 seniors participated in the election, a 45-per-cent turnout that is "close to the average of the last few years," Koivumaki said, adding that the increased votes for women corresponds to a larger number of women running for seats...
...Major Steven Wallace, assistant professor of aerospace at MIT and instructor of the seniors. "We don't want to take kids straight out of high school and rope them into the Air Force without giving them a chance to find out if they like it." More than 50 per cent of the students in MIT's program decide to drop out before junior year, Wallace says, a figure he estimates is slightly higher than the national average. He theorizes that the drop-out rate rises with the number of scholarshipsgiven out. "Here we have virtually everyone on scholarship," he says...
...committee. The union began laying the groundwork for a second representation effort by quietly enlisting support and loudly associating itself with causes celebres. By that fall, they were fully immersed in the organizing drive, signing clerical and technical workers to cards (Under labor law, a union needs 30 per cent of the proposed unit to sign cards.) The union filed for the right to hold and election last December, and District 65 organizers voiced confidence. "We'll win this time," said Kris Rondeau, who spearheaded the card-signing drive...
...ISSUES surrounding unionization remain somewhat fuzzy. Just prior to the campaign last spring, Harvard officials gave all University clerical and technical workers the largest raise ever--between 9.5 and 15.5 per cent, depending on the employee's classification. While District 65 immediately pointed to the pay hikes as an attempt to subvert its drive, University administrators pleaded innocence, saying the wage increase was an equitable response to growing inflation...
...Bureau of Labor as saying that unionization for clerical workers translates to an average of $47 more per week in pay; it notes that Boston's clerical workers are the fifth-lowest paid of the 15 largest U.S. cities; and it puts forward the alarming fact that 90 per cent of all working women receive no pension whatsoever. Those who do have a pension receive an average of $70 a month less than their male counterparts...