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About yesterday's rally, Steiner said that "demonstrations are an important part of University life." He said that officials were not overly concerned about the possibility that the post-rally vigil outside Massachusetts Hall--where Bok and Steiner have their offices--would disrupt normal operations there today...
Protesters throughout this week have picketed Bok's Massachusetts Hall office and indicated plans to disrupt the president's daily "business" following Jackson's speech. (See story below...
...Roth has done is to disrupt some people's thinking, and for that he's been jailed and defrocked," says D.M.S. Strategist Charles Honeywell. "Roth's scared. We're all scared. We don't want to be crucified, but we're at war and we won't stop...
...Said Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, one of the group: "If a treaty should emerge, we in the Senate would need to have more than a cursory knowledge of it." Although Kampelman & Co. readily offered backgrounding, they fear that leaks, misstatements and well-meant meddling by the lawmakers could disrupt the talks...
...technology, much of it has never been put to wide use. Says Gertrude Schroeder, a University of Virginia expert on the Soviet economy: "Soviet workers think that robots work too fast, and sabotage them. Supervisors have to build fences around the robots." Managers fear that testing new technologies will disrupt production and thereby prevent their factories from fulfilling assigned quotas. Says Herbert Levine, an expert on the Soviet economy at PlanEcon, a Washington consulting group: "All technological change means risk and a measurably high percentage of failure. Bureaucracies do not tolerate failure well...