Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proceeding much better. A Gallup poll released last week found that 59% of voters disapprove of Wilson's government v. only 22% who approve. Most of the disapproval centers around domestic policies: 84% were unhappy over the rising cost of living. A strike by 38,500 workers against Ford Motor Co. was settled last week, but the 24-day work stoppage cost Britain $60 million in exports. Wilson himself has called the union walkout irresponsible. He is furious because the loss will have to be recouped by tightening the budget or by further limiting imports...
Over the years, unions have treated worker seniority as gospel. The idea is that employees with the longest service have first crack at available jobs - and the last man hired is the first to lose his job in case of layoffs. Now the United Auto Workers has put before Ford Motor Co. proposals for a radical change in seniority arrangements...
Stephens said he based his charges on President Pusey's statement in a letter to Dean Ford last month. Pusey's letter said that the Corporation, not the Faculty, has the right to allocate space in Harvard buildings...
...most brutal formulation of this problem," Dean Ford said recently, "is that a merger might mean achieving sexual diversity at the expense of other kinds of diversity." Ford added that it is not yet clear how much money would be needed to bring Radcliffe scholarships up to the level of Harvard's; a study on that question will probably be ready by the Faculty's April meeting...
...Harvard undergraduates (somewhere between 10 and 50 per cent) would prefer to live in all-male houses, and it seems to be assumed that after the merger some of the Harvard Houses and perhaps a complex of Radcliffe dorms would remain unmixed. The problem of providing what Dean Ford calls 'a dignified choice," between the two kinds of housing will have to be worked out though, as well the difficulty of determining which houses go coed and which stay all-male House assignments have always been somewhat arbitrary and when some of the living quarters become clearly inferior that process...