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KEMP. He gave up the collar pin, but still sports a Gucci belt and tasseled loafers. Haig is runner-up with his sharply tailored suits...
Since white-collar employees at universities across the nation first began to unionize about 15 years ago, administrators and union members have frequently clashed, creating tense and divided campuses...
Among Ivy League and other universities, Cornell, Boston University (B.U.) and Stanford have experienced strikes by recently-formed unions, some of which include both white and blue-collar workers. Just after the clerical and technical employees' union at Yale was formed in 1984, the new union and its older blue-collar counterpart went on a highly-publicized 10-week strike when contract negotiations fell through...
Workers at Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, B.U., Yale, and Princeton have unionized partially. Organizers at Princeton and the B.U. Medical Area are beginning to form white-collar unions, but their counterparts at Brown and Dartmouth remain largely unorganized. District 65, a national union dominated by university locals to which the B.U. and Columbia unions belong, is currently investigating the possibility of heading union drives at area schools, including Simmons, Northeastern and Suffolk...
...arrests created an instant sensation in the highly charged financial community of Hong Kong. Not only did the authorities collar one of the colony's most celebrated tycoons, they also added fuel to the controversy that has engulfed the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ever since Li shut it down for four days during the global financial crash last October. At a stormy news ! conference held when trading resumed, the contentious Li argued that he had given investors a chance to calm down. But his action had the opposite effect: it created a pent-up pressure to sell. After the exchange...