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Word: circumventions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether or not the MESD decides to force Harvard to award the unemployment benefits, the University must be condemned for its unfeeling and--in Gallagher's case--possibly vindictive treatment of its employees. It is unfortunate that in offering these workers undesirable jobs, and in trying to circumvent a statute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Swindle | 2/16/1977 | See Source »

In an effort to circumvent a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that allows clerical workers in the Medical Area to unionize, Harvard announces plans to move the Medical, Dental and Public Health Schools and all of Harvard's teaching hospitals to Louisiana. "If that isn't a separate...

Author: By Charlie Shepard, | Title: Predictions, 1977: Standing With Pat | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Even after reaching New York, an immigrant who seeks working papers is apt to be severely interrogated by an official of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. "They keep trying to trick you into some mistake," says one Frenchwoman who recently underwent such questioning. "For example, the inspector asked me whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The New Immigrants: Still the Promised Land | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

Allied Chemical Corp., which developed and produced Kepone and later subcontracted its manufacture to a Hopewell firm called Life Science Products Co., was charged with 940 counts of discharging the chemical into the river. It was also charged with a single count of felonious conspiracy to circumvent Environmental Protection Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Bad News for Polluters | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

On the Left. For Russians, shopping is an endless, degrading and sometimes adventurous experience. The rule is that if you see a line forming, you immediately join it and only inquire then what is being sold-choice items go too quickly to hesitate. The KGB is sullenly omnipresent, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Inscrutable Soviets | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

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