Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said Harvard would not be legally responsible for an accident that occurred in a building not operated and maintained by the University. The Pi-Eta Club is a privately owned fraternity...
...applicants and meets with interested students to answer questions about Harvard. "It's not exactly recruiting--if you recruited 50 applicants and only five were accepted, that wouldn't spread much goodwill," he says. The admissions office has no quotas for regions or cities, but Trueheart says there are general "traditions" that usually govern the number of applicants accepted from a city--recently it's been about seven a year from Rochester...
...General World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC) met in Geneva on Monday to draft a treaty regulating the use of air waves...
While the pension problems of private workers are serious, those of public employees can be drastic. Some local governments soon will reap the whirlwind from years of promising elaborate benefits while making insufficient contributions to pension kitties. The General Accounting Office watchdogs reviewed at random 72 state and local government pension plans and found that 53 of them failed to make contributions on the level required by the Federal Government of private corporations. Says Michael Thome, head of the California state teachers retirement system: "Pension costs have been pushed into the future for somebody else to pay. Now, that...
...Excellent!" beamed Douglas Fraser, the United Auto Workers chief. "A credit to to both parties," said a General Motors negotiator. Both were praising a rare peaceful settlement, arrived at in a final flurry of horse trading at GM's imposing stone headquarters in Detroit just 4½ hours before a strike deadline. For the first time in 15 years, the autoworkers had reached a tentative contract agreement without going on a national strike. The three-year pact was concluded with GM but sets the pattern for the industry and covers 780,000 workers...