Word: closers
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With the decision, the FCC moved the U.S. phone system a step closer to one of the goals of the Bell breakup. That was to promote competition in the long- distance field by making it as easy to use new long-distance companies as it is to use AT&T. At present, an AT&T long-distance customer need only dial 1 plus the area code and local number. But in most areas, customers of competing networks must punch in as many as 22 numbers before reaching their party. Even when a connection is made, customers complain of erratic voice...
Citing the Yale strike, Daniel Steiner '54, University vice president and general counsel says he and other too administrators oppose a clerical and technical union at Harvard because "there has been a history of devisiveness caused by unions at universities." Also, since clerical workers are closer to research activities than other workers, that kind of union could disrupt academics much easier, says Steiner. "Compensations, benefits and working conditions are good at Harvard," says the vice president...
Steiner says a Harvard secretary makes, on average, between $16,000 to 16,500 per year, while UAW organizers hedge, saying that figure is closer to $15,000--which is about $1,500 more than a Yale secretary made before the strike. The job turnover rate is also under dispute. Steiner says 23 percent of clerical and technical jobs change hands annually. UAW says that rate is over 50 percent...
That was one of several times Doyle considered packing it in. He never did. But he did think seriously of transferring back closer to home, to Stanford or UCLA, where his girlfriend was at school. "My first two years here I really regretted not going to UCLA," he recalls. "I was still having a hard time getting used to the different culture out here--the people--and the weather...
...economists were optimistic that Congress and the White House are making a serious start toward resolving the budget dilemma. "I think we are getting closer and closer to a real breakthrough on bringing the deficit down," said Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein, who served for two years as President Reagan's chief economic adviser. The board was particularly encouraged by the resolution passed three weeks ago in the Republican-controlled Senate, which was designed to trim $56 billion from the 1986 budget, leaving a deficit of $171 billion. The plan would, among other things, eliminate the 1986 cost of living increase...