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...long ago, Greyhound's ironfisted tactic would have seemed overly harsh. Just last year, Texas Air chief Frank Lorenzo faced withering criticism for hiring replacements soon after Eastern Air Lines machinists went on strike. But in the past few years the same technique has been used against flight attendants, printers, papermill employees, restaurant workers and others -- both in the public and the private sector. In West Virginia some 15,000 teachers went on strike two weeks ago in a dispute over pay raises. Last week Governor Gaston Caperton suggested that county officials should begin firing the teachers and replacing them...
That may make the plan "just a mite harsh" in the words of Debbie M. Gurner '91, who added that the scheme is "not out of the question...
...will grant the plan is harsh, since the penalty for getting caught is stiff. But jail time is a small sacrifice for a bona-fide women's center. When released on probation, we will return to Harvard to use the women's center. In the worst scenario, martyrdom will only make us stronger...
...decision. The Rev. Harry Cole, a Presbyterian minister who faced the dilemma when his wife fell into a coma, admits the complexity of pressures. "If she were to go on that way, our family faced not only the incredible pain of watching her vegetate, but we also faced harsh practical realities." The cost of nursing-home care was likely to top $30,000 a year. "How could I continue to send three kids to college with the additional financial strain...
...TIME when people in the Soviet Union are beset with harsh economic and social realities, Pamyat's creation of a scapegoat has earned it a large popular following. Professor of Government Joseph S. Nye, Jr., speaking last month on post-Cold War foreign policy, speculated that Pamyat could conceivably win a plurality of Soviet votes in a truly democratic election...