Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard has consistently tried to bust unions. The University has spent millions over the last 12 years to defeat efforts by clerical and technical workers to organize into a union, repeatedly litigating election petitions before the NLRB for nine years. In 1982 the personnel office at the Medical School was moved in the middle of the night to support a bid to refuse them a union election. Harvard has also tried to stymie the dining hall workers' union. Last year officials tried to hire non-union labor at the Faculty Club and forced workers at the Business School's Kresge...
Although the Crimson was out-rebounded by a slim 31-30 margin, it was the squad's inability to box out for the second straight game which played a major role in the defeat...
...tourney should challenge the team's unblemished record. Last year's Crimson squad, which won a school-record 20 games, suffered its worst defeat against B.C.--a 91-51 count...
Kinnock has led the resurgence of the Labor Party since its 1983 defeat by Prime Minister Margret Thatcher's Conservative Party. A recent Gallup poll indicated that the Labor party now leads the Conservatives by three-and-one-half percent. As incumbent Prime Minister, Thatcher decides when to hold elections...
After 74 days and 1,000 deaths, the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands ended in a formal British victory, right? Wrong. While the British did defeat the Argentines in battle, no cease-fire was ever signed between the two belligerents, so technically the war goes...