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...large, employees solicited in that endeavor were treated with deference, and certainly without conduct that would inspire fear or confusion. As for others, the Employer--without calling a single witness to testify that he or she knew that the Union was providing assistance on a supporter only basis, or that he or she could not vote because of this requirement--argues that the union denied "1700-1800 members of the electorate who were not perceived as union supporters, equal access to the polls...
...Charges of insider trading, market manipulation, conflicts of interest and securities fraud are more and more common. The media have made their own contribution to this frenzied climate. They have turned raiders and junk-bond kings into a new economic elite, and takeovers into the highest form of business endeavor. But the combination of highly volatile markets and reports of irresponsible behavior by many in the financial community has undermined public confidence in the fairness of the system...
...purpose is] to try to expose women alumnae to different ways of learning and different skills involved in all fields of endeavor," said Renee M. Landers '77, president of Radcliffe College Alumnae Association...
...inter-faculty endeavor is complicated, but I sense that because of this public health problem, people are putting aside their personal ambitions," said Elkan R. Blout, dean for academic affairs...
...this pan-generational enthusiasm fires up an industry for equipment and clothes that is reckoned to be worth, overall, about half a billion dollars a year. It says something about the devotion the sport engenders that with such big bucks at stake, skateboarding remains a pretty straight-ahead endeavor. It has its own magazines (Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding are the most successful), its own lingo, its own half-mystical lore and its own concepts of < cool. No thrasher excessively applauds another for an especially rad move. Miss a trick, and another skater will say, with offhand censure, "That was totally...