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...walkout is over and only quiet discontent remains. Powers had said he hoped the University would have more carpentry work by March 31, but that date passed with no change in workload. The carpenters still contend the University is using outside contractors; Harvard still denies it. It's been almost a month, and many skirmishes have passed without any resolutions being achieved. With time, the fire has burned down, but the ashes are still smoldering...
...figure as an excuse to cut federal aid, protest that Carter improperly counted $15 billion in "social insurance" funds that are used to pay pensions, workmen's compensation and temporary disability benefits. That money should not be figured as part of the surplus, the state officials contend, because it cannot be used in day-to-day operations...
...thrill of the Oscars, we contend, is all in the anticipation. The show itself ended just as it began. A pretty lousy...
General Dynamics executives contend that they can fulfill the contract only at a heavy loss because the Navy kept changing its mind about what it wanted...
Champions of the core plan, including Harvard President Derek Bok, contend that students need more guidance in what they study. Says Government Professor Michael Walzer: "We can't function as a nutritionist who tells his patients that they are very intelligent and that there's a supermarket around the corner." Proponents also argue that even though the new requirements are more rigid than existing ones, they would still fill only a quarter of an undergraduate's schedule, the same as in the present system. That would leave the equivalent of two years for a major area...