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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signing a national letter of intent, the formal document with which high school seniors pledge themselves to one school. For Notre Dame and scores of other colleges, there is no more costly or critical contest than the annual quest for signatures. Nor, for less scrupulous schools, is there a dirtier sport (TIME, Jan. 21,1974). The reason: failure to get enough of the right names on the dotted line can mean disaster in the stadium. "Recruiting is the lifeblood of a college program," says Devine. "Without recruiting, Notre Dame would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brian's Pitch | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...most steel mills there are basically three kinds of jobs: well-paid craft and production posts for whites, dirtier and lesser-paid jobs for minorities and clerical jobs for women. A landmark consent decree signed last week by the United Steelworkers of America and nine major companies* promises to change that situation. The agreement, which ends a Government suit against the companies and the union, is the first job-discrimination settlement to cover almost an entire industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Busting Bias in Steel | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...indications that both Government and environmental leaders are striving for rational compromises to meet the crisis. Last week, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency staunchly defended air-quality standards set in the Clean Air Act. "We're going to be under continuing pressure to allow the use of dirtier fuel, especially coal," says EPA Administrator Russell Train. "But we're going to put much greater pressure on electric utilities to install pollution-abatement equipment, so that they will eventually meet our standards anyway." Confirming that policy, the Senate passed an amendment to the Clean Air Act last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIORITIES: The Hopeful Environmental View | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

ITEM: Pollution. The use of "improved" chemicals exacts a usurious price. Clothes are more immaculate, but rivers are dirtier. Insecticides help fruit to ripen undisturbed, but as insects die, so do birds and fish and mammals. Preservatives give packaged food a longer shelf life, but they may also cause disease. As the latter-day Poor Richard, Barry Commoner, has observed: "There is no such thing as a free lunch." Nonetheless, that illogical meal remains the most actively sought of all contemporary national goals. (On the other hand, the parvenu naturalists attack the machine as a malignant monster - though, if pollution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Uncommonness of Common Sense | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...higher taxes and higher spending have brought little if any improvement in public services. In many cases, the nation's streets are dirtier, its mass transit more decrepit, its public hospitals more understaffed, its streets more crime-ridden today than in decades. The knowledge that they are paying more and more for less and less service has bred in many citizens a suspicion that they are being cheated, and has fanned a mood of rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: Empty Pockets on a Trillion Dollars a Year | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

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