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However, HUCTW organizers contend that the UAW does not have enough support to call a fall vote. "They're trying to figure out how to pull out gracefully," Rondeau said in an interview...
...virtually everyone called President Reagan's re-election margin a "landslide majority" when in fact it was only a plurality of all potential voters. Nobody questioned the legitimacy of his election even though a majority of the American people did not say "we want you as President." So, activists contend, why should we question the legitimacy of divestment poll results...
...failure," argues William Gladstone, chairman of New York City-based Arthur Young. "Auditors don't manage companies." To Gladstone and many others in the profession, the kind of foolproof auditing that some critics demand is prohibitively expensive for clients and, at times, beyond the purview of C.P.A.s. Accounting executives contend that corporate auditors must be hypercautious in issuing statements that could affect the survival of individual corporations. Asks a Big Eight C.P.A.: "What company has not gone through a bad patch, yet survived to make profits...
...Trident II nuclear missiles puts to sea. To stay within the ceilings imposed by the SALT II treaty, which both sides are observing even though it has never been ratified, the U.S. would have to dismantle two older Poseidon submarines the moment the Trident begins sea trials. The Pentagon, contending that the Soviets have already violated the treaty, argues that the Poseidon subs instead should be dry-docked so that they could be quickly returned to sea. Opponents contend that such an outright breach of SALT II would be supremely dangerous because if all limits are scrapped, the U.S.S.R. will...
With thoughts of computers gobbling up chunks of their senior theses and batting with midterms, seniors must contend with stresses associated with graduating, losing college friends, starting off a career. College students on the brink of entering the real world are frequently over-whelmed by such stresses in their second semester, she says...