Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only 50 years ago? How touching our grandfathers' faith in the future seems, in our day of acid rain, exploding shuttles, decaying inner cities and general creeping dystopia. The mood is epitomized in objects like the male costume of the future dreamed up for Vogue -- a bearded figure in an immaculate white jumpsuit wearing a circular antenna as a halo on his head, John the Baptist among the insulators. Everything is streamlined, even objects that are screwed down and cannot move, so that America's breathless rush toward Utopia is clearly signified by things like a 1933 Raymond Loewy metal...
...December 6 staff editorial on this page entitled "Bad Faith, Again" may have left readers confused as to whether the University is quilty of making contract offers directly to Harvard patrolmen rather than through its recognized union...
Although the editorial correctly states Harvard's denial of charges that it circumvented the collective-bargaining process, it goes on to say, "This is not the first time the University has refused to bargain in good faith with the patrolmen." That sentence should have read: "If the charge is true, it would not be the first time the University has refused to bargain in good faith with the patrolmen...
...this is not enough, Kingston countered. "Jack [Reardon] wants an open contract, and to deal completely on faith," the sixth-year volunteer coach said. "But we have to look to the future...
...Instead you'd rather eat torts, eh? I know your type," says the Other waving the ladle at his companion. "Have a little faith! Remember Shaw said: `Where there's danger, there's hope.' I don't know what he meant by it, but he wasn't a lawyer, that's for sure...