Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the eons, these primitive defenders developed increasingly sophisticated weapons to fight off microorganisms, which could mutate far more rapidly and thus evolve faster than higher forms of life. But it was probably not until about 600 million years ago, about the time vertebrates began to emerge, that the modern immune system, with its T cells and B cells, began to take shape. Once in place, these two cell types must have quickly evened the odds, since they have the remarkable ability of producing, respectively, a staggering variety of killer T cells and antibodies capable of attacking any invader...
...Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), was as big a threat as Harvard claimed, then why didn't the administration put its full weight into the campaign and go giant to giant? Harvard's tactics show that it accepted this race as what it really was--the fight of individual workers to be heard and of a scrappy union to represent them...
...anti-union campaign. Unaided by other top administrators and unauthorized to use more heavy-handed tactics, Taylor fought the union mainly on her own. A valiant effort, but a losing one from the start. She was the fall guy in a battle the University did not let her fight to win. The administration's isolation of Taylor is indicative of its disregard for women--probably reason enough for employees to switch their votes to HUCTW...
...offset the problem of tuition, Linkous has worked during the summer at her father's photography store in Fairbanks. For his part, Merriner has fished for salmon on the state's southwestern coast and for crabs in the Bering Sea. Pananen plans to fight fires for the state government this summer--a job, he says, that pays well and is hard...
...complaint proves once again that she and her institution have little interest in undergraduates. The folks in Fay House could be influential leaders in the women's movement. They could use Radcliffe to call attention to the plight of modern women, to advance the cause of equality and to fight discrimination...