Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week marked the University's first victory in a contest of wills with Harvard dining hall workers. Members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union voted Tuesday night to accept the University's contract offer, reversing an earlier union decision to reject the pact...
...state's sleeping voters. During the last few weeks, the studied, statesman-like poses originally struck by Republican incumbent John Tower and Democratic challenger Bob Krueger have, in part, given way to the childish stance of petulant name-callers. Virtually devoid of substantive issues, the campaign has become a contest to see who can paint the most nefarious portrait of his opponent. And the prize will most certainly not go to the most accurate artist...
Through the use of sign language and push-button computers, apes have shown they can use symbols to generalize, pose questions and express moods. These experiments contest the claims made by thinkers from Descartes to Noam Chomsky that man's uniqueness can be found in his unusual ability to think and talk in abstract terms. What is it, then, Leakey asks the reader, that makes man different? What special quality does the human brain possess...
...Crimson tallied 34 points, while Dartmouth, the first-place finisher, and Trinity, number two, recorded 40 and 36 points respectively. Crosstown rival Tufts, who beat Harvard in a team contest just last week, placed fourth with only 22 points...
These concerns have been reverberating throughout the nation in the closing weeks of the 1978 election campaign. As always, the contest is a patchwork of local conflicts. All 435 House seats are at stake, along with 35 Senate seats, 36 governorships and most state and local offices. Nobody expects any radical changes in party strengths: the Democrats will probably, retain their 61-vote margin in the Senate and lose only half a dozen of their 287 seats in the House, a bleak prospect for the Republicans in an off-year election. In much of the country, indeed, many key issues...