Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Our current housing crisis is doubtless a national problem that demands national policy changes. Next month's election is not going to make everything rosy in Central Square. Still, the elections will make an important difference.
On November 7, all politics will be local politics. Only student protest can ultimately check Harvard's administration, and only national politics can ultimately solve the housing crisis. November's election will not provide a sufficient solution to Cambridge's problems, but it is a necessary part of the solution...
A similar tunnel-vision mentality underlies our drive to place convenience above all other considerations. We fret and worry over the crisis of solid waste disposal, but God forbid we should have to do without our disposable diapers, plastic six-pack harnesses and styrofoam coffee cups.
EACH of us makes economic decisions everyday that worsen the environmental crisis. It is therefore within our capacity to take steps to reverse it. Although business decisions made at the corporate and national levels bear proximate responsibility for most environmental destruction, the choices we make as consumers ultimately render us...
Against a backdrop of financial crisis in public higher education, nonfaculty professionals at the University of Massachusetts voted 3-to-1 yesterday to form a union.