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Harvard Dining Services (HDS) has decided to overturn the 1992 student-prompted boycott on table grapes inspired by the national boycott started in 1984 by union leader Cesar Chavez, according to HDS executive chef Michael Miller...
...been doing business with Harvard for several years now," said Brad Woodgate, vice-president of Costa. "And it's always just been a forgone conclusion that Harvard didn't purchase grapes because of the Cesar Chavez situation, and nobody's ever pursued...
Technically, almost all grapes from California are still under the 1984 boycott called by the United Farm Workers (UFW), the union formerly led by Chavez. The boycott was the third such economic sanction in a series of UFW boycotts dating back...
...course, there's still a stigma. A middle-aged Beverly Hills stockbroker paints his toes but only shows his wife, according to Jeanne Chavez, Hard Candy's sales v.p. And Glenn Watamanik, 35, a foreign-currency specialist, wore his electric-blue nails to work at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange--just once. "Younger people thought it was cool," he says. "But the more conservative look at you like you're crazy." Some men reserve nail polish for "let's go out" time--with or without a date. "Women come up to my friend who wears nail polish and have something...
...sports equation as a team owner and a broadcaster. Murdoch?s Fox network and regional cable channels have played a key role in driving up the fees paid teams for televising games. By owning the Dodgers, as well as the NFL franchise Murdoch hopes to lure to Chavez Ravine, News Corp would lock in both popular sports programming and a cut of those fees. Worse, if he gets his way, they'll never come back to Brooklyn...