Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreement could be seen as an important tactical victory for J.P. Stevens in two ways. First, Stevens has escaped the immediate danger of an injunction without giving anything in return. The company still maintains its past innocence with regard to labor practices and will probably continue indefinitely to postpone fair union elections in a tangle of litigation. Second, the Stevens officials, masters of publicity, have succeeded in confusing the opposition. Many are hailing the settlement as a significant victory for Stevens' workers. Mike Schippani, director of the New England boycott, was much closer to the truth when he called...
...pleased to see my fair city featured in TIME. Perhaps Mayor Kucinich realizes that Cleveland is only noticed when it provides incidents to reaffirm its status as a national joke...
EVEN MORE ANNOYING, the orations themselves give the impression that today, finally, in the merged-non-merged '70s, all is well at fair Harvard. We are proudly told of the fact that Radcliffe crew is still a Radcliffe, not a Harvard, team and that "equal-access" admissions has forever solved the perennial problem of the Harvard sex ratio. Ignored are the larger problems of equal funding for women's athletic teams and minority recruitment reluctance. One almost feels that the show was designed with nostalgic alumni in mind...
Despite what many people think, not everyone in India is deeply religious--there are a fair number of hypocritical gurus there as well. But it is easier to live a meditative life there than in the U.S.; one has to, because the irremediable poverty demands an escape from it. Hearing Indian music night and day enriches the practice of it. America, with its diversity of cultures, just does not lend itself to the pursuit of pure Indian music...
Luthut Ragin Jr. '76, a United Front member and freshman proctor, told the chanting crowd, "I think it's fair to say that on Monday, April 24, 1978, the Harvard student body has exploded the myth that there exists a pervasive apathy and an apolitical attitude on campus...