Word: filed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when events happen there's no lightning and thunder, no tears. The world it portrays is full of weak and ineffectual people who can't make a difference. But somewhere in the back of the mind a little man with a briefcase scurries in late and drops off a file full of sobering things...
...CHAOS' chief reported directly to then CIA Director Richard Helms, rather than to Counterintelligence Chief James Angleton, who was not even informed of all of the operation's activities. Eventually, CHAOS had 52 full-time employees and about 30 part-time agents and accumulated some 13,000 files, including 7,200 on American citizens and organizations. Drawing from those files and related documents, officials developed an index of 300,000 names, which were stored in a CIA computer. Some of its entries were absurd as well as illegal (because the operation exceeded the CIA's statutory authority...
...price increases have just about eliminated the possibility of an amicable settlement of union wage claims. The government first indicated that it would accept a final wage increase no higher than 38%, but this was immediately rejected by union leaders under pressure from an angry rank and file. A proposed ceiling of 45% imposed by decree was likewise angrily rejected. At week's end the wage talks were deadlocked, and workers seemed on the verge of industrial turmoil. There was a two-day strike at heavy-industry plants in Córdoba; when demonstrations were banned by the authorities...
Pointedly suspicious of outsiders (roughly defined as anyone whose birth certificate is not on file at the local hospital), some Islanders suspected that Hollywood interlopers would wreck their tranquillity, ruin the tourist season and befoul their waters. Others pointed out that a film crew of 150 or so would pep up business considerably during a recession offseason. So the Islanders settled back to watch events with skepticism...
...Harvard every academic department and administrative division has numerical hiring goals but those goals are not supposed to be the focus of their efforts. Instead, for every teaching appointment a department has to file a statement proving that it made a careful search beforehand and tried to find minority and women candidates, and for non-teaching appointments employers have to list openings beforehand to encourage a wide applicant pool. Once the search for applicants is made, whoever is doing the hiring theoretically proceeds to hire the best qualified person for the job; it is more likely that minorities or women...