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This policy meant a dead-end for Princeton Lecturer in History Ellen W. Schrecker, who tried for several years to obtain Harvard documents from the 1950s. Published several months ago, Schrecker's book, "No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities," has renewed the battle between scholars and universities over access to archival material...
...even take it strong to the basket. Still, I'm concerned. In order for Blacks to exert influence, we've got to get the money. Jobs in investment banking were for me always one step on the way to getting rich, not the way. Stuck in a dead-end, no-power job, waiting for the secretary to bring the cheese croissants, is hardly...
...schemes and generous severance packages to entice voluntary resignations as a means of meeting slimming goals. For some employees, no amount of compensation can adequately make up for the loss of the job. But for others, the golden handshake can provide a liberating opportunity to get out of a dead-end job and start afresh somewhere else...
Sometimes the story puts the emphasis on how the system might go wrong (Wargames, Failsafe); other times on the effects when--it's always when, never if--the balloon goes up (The Day After); and sometimes on how we landed in the nuclear soup (The Atomic Cafe, The Dead-End Kids). The way these works and also comes in three brands: the Ominous Warning ("Time is running out!"), the Barely-Averted Disaster ("Whew, that was a close one!"), or Total Doom ("I told...
...even some supporters of a hike acknowledge that an increased minimum wage would still be disdained by large numbers of jobless young people, who are not inspired by the prospect of flipping hamburgers at a fast-food franchise. "These are dead-end jobs," says Lorna Barnes, an account executive at Chicago's Minority Economic Resources Corporation, which trains and places young people in jobs. Barnes contends that an aggressive job- education and retraining program would have far greater impact than a minimum- wage increase. That seems to be one idea on which left and right can agree: the Reagan Administration...