Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Harvard officials are waiting, gnashing their teeth and talking about the agency's failure to uncover the documents that will vindicate the University. Thomas O'Brien, vice-president for financial affairs, predicts that HEW will eventually only demand that the University return a few hundred thousand dollars due to insufficient documentation--in contrast to the $2.5 million the original audit asserted had been misused. Both O'Brien and other University officials say the agency derived the $2.5 million figure after dissecting only a small part of the total--and then extrapolating the results...
...free of rent control helped spur the condo boom in Cambridge, a wave of conversions that shrunk the number of apartments in the city by 2000 in the past three years. "Condo conversion has really affected Harvard--it has cut the housing stock at a period when demand, especially from transient students, is increasing all the time," Sally Zeckhauser, president of Harvard Real Estate, Inc. said...
Three years ago the University police took their anger and frustration over changes in the department to the bargaining table. After 13 long months, they extracted some firm promises from the University's negotiating team. The union's demands went far beyond the purview of most bargaining sessions. The police then focussed not on the perennial demand for cost of living increases and better benefits, but on the methods used to transform the department from a familial friendly cop outfit to a professional crime fighting organization...
...issue is even more complex for the union, which sees its base steadily eroding. Neither watchman nor security guards are members of the union. At the same time, the union demand for more equitable promotions within the department has backfired, weakening its position still further. Before the last contract negotiations, the police charged that the few times Gorski promoted officers he chose them arbitrarily. The union contended that the lack of equity, internal communication and job security had severely damaged police morale, and demanded that the University correct the situation before it renegotiated a contract...
...hard selling could soften future markets. The company will launch its 1980 models on Oct. 12, and there is always the danger that the drummed-up demand now could take away from sales of the new cars. Also, the discounts being offered to buyers and dealers are so large that profit margins on each sale are small...