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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...receiving new developments. For example, it is said that European music is stuck in the '80s. Though perhaps we're not a full decade behind, the Quad is surely last to be hit by Harvard's emerging trends. It takes us longer to receive University mail, hear gossip and contract flu epidemics that strike the River weeks before. When things eventually arrive on our distant shores, they are never quite the same as the original product. For example, Temple Bar can't compare to Grafton Street any better than Euro Disney can compete with prototype theme-parks in Anaheim...
...Mike Krzyzewski, Dean Smith and John Thompson. A paper here, a problem set there, no big deal. I don't mean to imply that these coaches condoned academic dishonesty, but to the victors in college basketball, coaches and players alike, go enormous spoils--national fame and fortune, million-dollar contracts, a guaranteed contract on a dream...
When Local 254 of the Service EmploymentInternational Union renegotiated the contract forHarvard's custodial staff in the fall of 1996, theresult was an agreement in which wages were frozenand benefits slashed...
...current contract, negotiated by the Cambridge Patrol Officers' Association, allows officers to "bid" for certain neighborhoods, choosing their assignments on the basis of seniority and experience. Since officers can switch neighborhoods several times a year, most do not establish relationships with the community members...
Other University officials say that the option of hiring a less expensive security agency is hampering the guard's efforts at securing a new contract...