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...Cambridge’s commissioner of public works. The current start time of 7 a.m. is the same as that in Boston and Somerville, and allows crews to work for 40 hours a week during the winter, Peterson said in a letter. Residents had also asked that Harvard use flagmen in place of beeping alarms to alert passersby to trucks backing up. But Healy determined that the alarms were not in violation of any law, so Cambridge had no authority to order Harvard to replace them. —BRENDAN R. LINN
Construction, like law enforcement and higher education, seems to be another business that has made particularly noticeable affirmative action strides in recent years. This week, with construction crews out in full force on New England's highways, the sex ratio of flagmen to flagwomen appeared nearly equal. Of course, women were conspicuously absent from construction crews. Now it doesn't seem like it matters much what sex the person is who waves a flag to direct cars around road construction. But it sure appears to make a big difference to some people. A group of men in a Pinto were...
...construed to be a shabby popularizing of the A. P. which would cause Melville E. Stone (a founder) to "turn over in his grave." Speaking about a night on a train he had spent with Founder Stone, during which Stone appeared equally at ease before a group of flagmen and a onetime premier of Canada, said General Manager Cooper...
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