Word: chapterful
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Boston University trustees charged the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) with unfair labor practices Thursday in a continuing controversy between the university and the 300-member professors union...
Worldwide Church expense accounts have been just one element of the latest chapter in the continuing struggle over control of the 45-year-old institution. Acting on behalf of dissident members and California's attorney general, the state's superior court appointed a receiver to take temporary control of the church's multimillion-dollar assets. The dissidents accuse Rader, 48, and the church's head and self-styled prophet, Herbert W. Armstrong, 86, of not only lavish spending but "liquidating the properties of the church on a massive scale." The plaintiffs charge that in the past...
...Brill, the Teamsters are a metaphor for American society. The Harold Gibbons chapter that closes the book brings this out even more than the stories of the two rank'n'filer Teamsters. Gibbons was a socialist St. Louis Teamster leader, who pioneered in providing his members with a food co-op, his retirees with low-cost subsidized housing, St. Louis with mass transit, and who even supported busing to help eliminate segregated schools before the 1954 Supreme Court decision. And Gibbons supported McGovern in 1972 against the Teamster tide for Nixon. But he backed down when it came to challenging...
...interpreter, in a high-pitched "stage" voice used specifically for audiences, would interject and translate Mondale's words into Chinese. Modale praised the President, Premier Hua Kuo-feng and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, acclaimed the establishment of diplomatic ties and said "the touchstones of this new and historic chapter in Sino-American relations are equality and realism, in contrast to the "estrangement, misunderstanding and confrontation" which have characterized so much of America's previous dealings with the Asian power. He later added that our ideological differences cannot be bridged by sentiment alone. Rather, "what has brought us together...
...This is not the end. Either these talks will resume, or there will be another chapter of peace negotiations. The work we have done is not wasted." So said Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan last week, as he prepared for a weekend meeting in Brussels to explore ways of resuming the deadlocked talks on an Egyptian-Israeli pact. Both Egypt's Premier Moustafa Khalil and U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who were to join Dayan in the Belgian capital, hoped that other long chapters of negotiations would not have to be written. But the possibility of an early...