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Eastern's workers felt they had been sacrificing long enough. When the airline was nearly bankrupt in 1975, Borman persuaded his unions to take a one-year wage freeze. Over the past three years, they agreed to defer 3.5% of their pay because the airline was losing money. Now that mechanics have won a big pay hike, Eastern faces a new round of tough negotiations with its 6,300 flight attendants...
...neighboring Marxist-led Angola. Only a year ago, many diplomats were optimistic that South Africa would succumb to pressure from the U.S., France, Britain, West Germany and Canada to allow U.N.-supervised elections that would lead to independence. Since then, South Africa has embraced linkage as an excuse to defer free elections. Little wonder: such a vote would probably be won by the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), the Marxist-dominated guerrilla movement that is leading an armed independence struggle in the territory. At a stormy meeting two weeks ago in the capital of another black neighbor...
...President's proposal, made in the State of the Union address (see story, column 3), would allow parents to defer taxes on money set aside in special savings accounts that could be drawn on to pay for college tuition...
...added that the union was willing to defer the pay hike until April 1983. But, said Mills, management has given all the union's proposals "a flat...
This is not the old argument between the "two cultures" of science and the humanities, for science too is often forced to defer to technical and vocational training. In 1979, according to one Carnegie study, 58% of all undergraduates pursued "professional" majors (up from 38% a decade earlier), in contrast to 11% in social sciences, 7% in biological sciences, 6% in the arts and 4% in physical sciences. Rich and prestigious private universities can resist this rush toward vocational training, but public and smaller private colleges are more vulnerable. "The bulk of the institutions will have to give...