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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack") Davis attacked the report, contending that it is a rehash of old, unfounded charges. It accused the company of ties to organized crime, faulty accounting, inadequate information about gambling junkets and the purchase of a key employee's silence with a ten-year, $350,000 consulting contract...
...third baseman extraordinary, tour guide and head auctioneer of the most remarkable free-agent sale in baseball history. So well did Rose peddle himself that the former Cincinnati Reds star moved to the top of the list of baseball's new millionaires last week, signing a four-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies for about $3.5 million. That would make him, at $875,000 a year (or $5,400 a game during the regular season), the highest paid baseball player in history, surpassing San Francisco Pitcher Vida Blue, who reportedly could earn up to $800,000 next year. Rose...
Bogged down in negotiations with the federal government over a long-overdue contract, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers voted for a national strike to speed up stalled negotiations. After two days of the strike, the federal government passed back-to-work legislation with heavy penalities for disobedience. Arguing that a right that is removed when exercised is no right at all, the postal workers defied the law and fought to protect their right to strike...
...added that "labor solidarity is a two-way street" and argued that the postal union ought to have compromised its autonomy in negotiations in return for possible labor support on the right-to-strike question. But the general issue of the right-to-strike and the specifics of the contract discussions are clearly distinct and independent, and confusing them appears to be a mere pretense for the CLC to more directly interfere in the autonomous affairs of its affiliates...
...University honor such a man by dedicating a library of public affairs to him? (Harvard administrators insist that they will accept any gifts as long as there are "no strings attached.") Dean Allison, when pressed by the Kennedy School Black Students Caucus, admitted that there is in fact no contract requiring the naming of the library after Engelhard. If so, why not change the name? Is the Kennedy School frankly admitting that there should be no relationship between morality and public affairs? Must we seek funds from and honor every wealthy donor, no matter how immoral their source of wealth...