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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...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Where There's Smoke There's Fire | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: State of the States: Healthy | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...thrill of the Oscars, we contend, is all in the anticipation. The show itself ended just as it began. A pretty lousy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oscar Beats the Odds | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Cash or No Subs | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pulling Back from Permissiveness | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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