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Passage of the bill is not certain. Senate conservatives will be sorely tempted to amend it, and the House Judiciary Committee has long been a graveyard for complicated legislation. But the Carter Administration has tentatively endorsed the compromise, and chances for passage before congressional adjournment in 1978 appear bright...
...candidates running on an ecology platform, who drained votes from the left. In the provinces, however, many of his close political allies were defeated. "Chirac stands like a white knight in Paris," observed one of Giscard's ministers last week, "but the land around him is a graveyard marked with crosses over his friends' graves...
There is no message in this elegy from a Hollywood graveyard. The Haywards were unusual and interesting only in their good fortune, not their bad. Tolstoy was wrong: it is unhappy families that are all the same. Happiness is unique, the product of endless labor, never-ending struggle. It demanded an effort the Haywards were not willing to make...
...took their cases before two officers on the MESD Board of Review Examiners in the third and last possible stage of the appeal procedure. Five of the employees, all women, explained that they had turned down the temporary jobs offered them because the jobs would have involved working the "graveyard shift," between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. Several of these women testified that they live outside of Cambridge, must use public transportation to reach Harvard, and fear coming in and out of the Square alone at night...
...statute is discriminatory, which indeed it is. Yet Harvard's contention that the MESD should therefore dismiss the statute as unconstitutional, when no state or federal law court has handed down a decision on the matter, overlooks the genuine human problems that caused the women to refuse the "graveyard shift" jobs...