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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technical employees of the Harvard Community Health Plan voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to ratify a new contract with the plan's management, ending their union's month-long picketing of the plan's two local health care facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hospital Union Votes to Ratify New Contract | 11/11/1977 | See Source »

...better be ready. The World Boxing Council, one of two rival groups that rule boxing--made up of old fighters who were hit in the head too often--has decided that Ali must sign a contract to defend his title against Norton within 60 days or forfeit the crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norton and Young Out to Corner Ali | 11/9/1977 | See Source »

...Yale administration has refused throughout the walkout to submit the dispute to binding, third-party arbitration, and contract negotiations have been suspened indefinitely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pickets to Confront Harvard-Yale Fans | 11/8/1977 | See Source »

...split, 3-3, liberal-independent). Vellucci still plays by his own rules, however, often holding out his vote until the final moment for the sake of political and dramatic effect. School Committeeman Glenn S. Koocher '71 says Vellucci waited six months before agreeing to extend the superintendent's contract, and thus forced three committee liberals to refrain from publicly criticizing...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: An Old-Fashioned Operator | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...William C. Lannon, superintendent of Cambridge schools. The Cambridge Convention, as well as most of the community, backs the policies he has followed since his appointment in 1975, but he is a source of irritation to the other incumbents. A few weeks ago the Convention rammed through Lannon's contract extension several months before the old contract expires. The issue of his contract is now moot, but both sides are still talking about...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: The Other Contest | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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