Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the problem lies not in the form of the Postal Service but in the nature of the beast. It is no more reasonable to expect the government to run a cheap, efficient system of mail delivery than it is to expect water to run uphill. The USPS is a monopoly, and a government-operated one at that. It has no profit motive; in the private sector, a firm has to make a profit to survive, and it can only do that by providing people with a service they want at a price they are willing...
...going up another $100--last year's raise was $90--because of inflation and because the kitchen workers got a handsome 50-cent-an-hour raise in a new contract negotiated over the summer. Kaufmann says the final food raise (all the raises will be submitted in final form to the Corporation at the end of the month) may be slightly less than...
Lazonick was then a graduate student in Economics involved in the effort by nearly half of the 2800 grad students to form a union, and the irony of Dunlop's message that night was that the dean was at the same time firmly resisting the demand by students for a collective bargaining agent...
...students wanted a union to press their demands on financial issues, but Dunlop argued that student scholarships could not be regarded as a form of compensation, and that, as he said in an April 1972 Faculty meeting, "resort to a strike and picket line rather than reasoned discussion were not congenial to the academic community...
...spring of 1972, the marriage counselor proposed to the graduate students that they form a joint committee with administrators--a joint committee that, in the words of the Faculty's secretary, would "address itself to the multiple interests within a varied and large academic community...