Word: concernedly
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Local 880 obtained a charter from the Service Employees International Union on the condition the international branch forego its traditional right to veto a strike vote of the local, Stephanie Van Dyke '79, another member of the CEC, says. The union also stands out in its concern for the rights of patients to good and compassionate health care, as well as the rights of hospital workers, Damman says...
...union demonstrated its dual concern for patients and workers in the case of St. John of God, a convalescent hospital in Brighton that houses chronic care patients. The hospital was scheduled to be closed for a lack of funds, but doctors estimated that 30 per cent of the patients might die if they were moved. The union took up the case, lobbied against the closing -- and the hospital stayed open. Damman remembers how important the issue was to those involved, and how it felt to help them. "People were furious at the idea their relatives would have to be moved...
Both Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy and local cinema owners yesterday expressed surprise and concern after the city denied the Brattle Theatre a permit to show midnight movies--a regular offering of other city moviehouses...
...Calnan said yesterday, "I don't think that any of the theater owners have a cause for concern...
...Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, recommending the magazine's rebirth as a monthly. Kunhardt, a former LIFE assistant managing editor, cited the rising prosperity of the magazine industry, a new surge of public interest in photography, the success of the single-issue LIFE editions, and his concern that the public might start to forget LIFE if it did not return soon. In addition, Time Inc.'s new weekly magazine, PEOPLE, which uses a picture-story format reminiscent of the old LIFE, was virtually an instant success. Given the go-ahead, Kunhardt's group spent the next three months...