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...necessary because of the papers' unruly and often anarchic unions. In 1978 alone, 74 work stoppages cost the papers $5.6 million. That year Thomson offered eight unions, representing some 4,000 employees of Times Newspapers Ltd., generous boosts in wages and benefits-if they would agree to gradual implementation of laborsaving technology, a new, fast-acting disputes procedure and a guarantee of uninterrupted production. When some unions balked at the compromise, Thomson suspended publication of both papers for eleven months during 1978 and 1979, a shutdown that cost the company some $82 million in pretax losses. A strike this...
...gradual expansion of opportunities available to women in both undergraduate education and business has helped bridge the gap. James Foley, associate director of MBA admissions, says that the women now applying "come with backgrounds including work experience very like their male counterparts, which was not true in 1970." Lynda A. Schubert, assistant professor of Marketing, expresses similar confidence in the qualifications of the B-school's female student body: "The profile of women is now more accurately mirroring the profile of the Harvard Business School population. But despite substantial improvement in women's qualifications, women continue to apply in fewer...
LaDuke's introduction to Indian activism was gradual. Her first two years at Harvard, she managed the men's ice hockey team. Then, in 1977, she attended the American Indian conference at Harvard and met one of the members of the Native American Treaty Council, a non-governmental body in the United Nations. Shortly thereafter, the treaty council hired her to write a report on multinational corporations on Indian reservations, and within the year the council asked her to go to Geneva to speak at the Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. And then...
...proponents that only "fat" will be cut from city government should the referendum pass. Cambridge taxes about 5 per cent of assessed values of city property--hence it will have to cut its collections in half. To lessen the shock, "2 1/2" proponents beneficently allow for a gradual phase-in--the city will only have to melt away 15 per cent of its fiscal cellulite a year until it reaches the magic level. So figure inflation prances along at 10 per cent next year; coupled with a 15 per cent reduction in city revenues that means about...
Advocating return to a foreign policy of non-interference. Clark called for massive cuts in military spending and "the gradual phasing-out of alliances with Western Europe and Japan...