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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continue to face discrimination in this country. If young women entering the professions are being taken seriously, they do so as a consequence of the affirmative actions by women who put themselves on the line demanding equal opportunity and the end to sex discrimination. Without these continued efforts to combat nonconscious forms of institutional sexism, many qualified women would not hold their present positions. Political actions by both men and women are encouraging professional institutions to act affirmatively in providing women with equal opportunity. Within this context. I am at Harvard because of affirmative action. Ethel Klein Assistant Professor Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Context | 12/13/1979 | See Source »

...them by SFTP. A group that practiced what SFTP professes would have acted so as to isolate neo-fascist groups from any source of legitimization, rather than to fabricate non-existent links. Their behavior makes sense if one infers that their purpose is to slander sociobiology rather than to combat fascism. In this, they have met with some success. But if sociobiology is a social weapon, it is those in SFTP who have made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science for the People? | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

Puopolo died on December 17, 1976, a month after Easterling stabbed him during a fight between several Harvard football players and the defendants in Boston's Combat Zone...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Easterling Sentenced To 20 Years | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...savings. Instead of simply taxing income, the Federal government could tax income minus savings in a way that equalizes the tax burdens upon the rich and poor. With these incentives, Americans would certainly save more, banks and business would invest more, and ensuing gains in productivity would steadily combat inflation...

Author: By David H. Feinberg, | Title: Not VAT Again | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

Some of the adventure toys are truly freaky. Woolworths has an aisle devoted to the Megabugs--Megaspider Gladiator, Scorpion Megabug and Dragonfly Megabug. They are "the combat machines of the future." They cost $8.29, but include "bug bomb, working winch and insect sound." You can manually operate the wings on Dragonfly Megabug...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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