Word: daniels
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Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, who drafted the plan's explanatory letter sent to the 11,000 employees affected by the program, said the decision to enact the insurance came after nine months of planning and conversation among Corporation members...
Citing the Yale strike, Daniel Steiner '54, University vice president and general counsel says he and other too administrators oppose a clerical and technical union at Harvard because "there has been a history of devisiveness caused by unions at universities." Also, since clerical workers are closer to research activities than other workers, that kind of union could disrupt academics much easier, says Steiner. "Compensations, benefits and working conditions are good at Harvard," says the vice president...
...Nicaragua, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra's renewed calls for bilateral talks with Honduras were ostensibly aimed at relieving border tensions. Washington believes such conversations would run counter to the Contadora process, the regional effort to bring peace to Central America. The minister's brother, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, concluded his 25-day, 14-country tour of Eastern and Western Europe with the announcement that Moscow had agreed to supply up to 90% of Nicaragua's oil needs. Since estimates are that the Soviet Union already provides some 75% to 90% of Nicaragua's consumption...
Above all, the Nicaraguan government was intent on creating an image of firmness. On a blitz of Western Europe that was hastily added to a 13-day pilgrimage to East European capitals, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra repeatedly asserted that Nicaragua was not about to bend under the U.S. embargo. In Spain, France, Italy, Finland and Sweden, he pitched strongly to his hosts for help in filling the sizable trade vacuum ($168 million in 1984) left by U.S. sanctions...
...picaresque ramblings of Huck (Daniel Jenkins), who runs away from the enslavements of civilization, and his friend Jim (Ron Richardson), a literal runaway slave, have been pared into a purposeful narrative without diminishing the aura of spontaneity. William Hauptman's book also sustains Twain's deeper exploration of how a society could view slavery as normal and regard assisting a runaway as a crime against property. The story starts slowly and wobbles in tone, but achieves the original's deft mix of social comment, slapstick farce, heartrending melodrama and boy's own tale of danger. Big River, which started...