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...great majority [of people] are concerned that programs to exploit technological development will confuse the university's central commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and learning by introducing into the very heart of the academic enterprise a new and powerful motive--the search for commercial utility and financial gain...
...peace is agreed to by the warring parties. TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says that Clinton "is staking an awful lot on the success of the peace talks. If they fail, he has failed and Bosnia ia s mess. There will have been a lot of pain and no gain. This is a big gamble...
Buoyed by the fall of rent control and an overall desire for change among Cambridge voters, conservative candidates endorsed by the Alliance for Change are optimistic about their chances to gain control of city offices in the November 7 election...
...bottom, what the U.N. has that no specialized agency can match is universal moral legitimacy. However tattered it may be, the notion of a global human commonwealth is integral to the postwar world and its challenges. As a new century nears, the invention of 1945 may gain a new lease on life in tackling such genuinely globe-girdling issues as energy supplies, counterterrorism, environmental decay and drug trafficking, as well as disease control-jobs no single country can manage. Says Eban: "In the end, the idea of world community is going to succeed. Therefore, the U.N. should...
Nationwide, union membership is already up a total of 3%, to 16.6 million workers, in 1993 and 1994--snapping a 14-year decline. Virtually all growth is among white-collar, service and public-sector employees. Nevertheless, labor's gains still lagged behind the increase in the number of wage and salary workers, which grew some 4% from 1992 to 1994; that caused the share of unionized jobs to continue to fall. "As employment goes up, unions will grow," Donahue says. "The trouble is that as fast as we gain new members, we lose others to corporate downsizing...