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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first priority of the organizations '30 core members is to collect signatures on a petition addressed to Carter and King condemning nuclear power, which they will present during a rally at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth. Mass., on June 3, a day of international protest...

Author: By Edward C. Forst, | Title: Harvard Employees Organize, Petition Against Nuclear Power | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

Union members, who had earned about $9.75 an hour, will collect 800 more in the first year and 350 in each of the next two years, bringing them up to $11.25 per hour in 1981. They will also get an additional $1.09 for benefits, like health insurance. Assuming an average inflation rate of 6% over the next three years, as the Administration optimistically does, the cost of living payment would add another 830 and bring the total wage and benefit increase for the contract to $3.42 an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wages of Clout | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...engages in three types of activity on campus in the U.S.--the recruitment of Americans, recruitment of foreign students (both carried out with the cooperation of various academics) and the use of scholars to analyze, collect or even publish information for the agency. A fourth activity, covert support of "moderate" students' groups, gradually wound down after revelations in 1967 showed covert funding for the National Student Association...

Author: By Trevor Barnes, | Title: The CIA: Sharing the Students | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

HERE LIES the real threat to the integrity and freedom of American academic life. Here lies the real menace to privacy as the agency delves into the individual's past to collect incriminating details if the students does not cooperate. One wonders how many of those 2000-3000 foreign students will be found on the Harvard campus this year...

Author: By Trevor Barnes, | Title: The CIA: Sharing the Students | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

When it comes to saving money, affluent people get a break. Those who put $10,000 or more into six-month money market certificates can collect interest at roughly 9.5%, while small savers are limited by law to earning only 5% from commercial banks and 5.25% from savings institutions on their passbook accounts. Last week federal banking authorities proposed new measures to redress this imbalance and encourage saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Help for Savers | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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