Word: intendancy
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...intend to stay here until the end of the business day, in order to express our moral indignation at Harvard's refusal to join a growing national movement to end American support for apartheid. In spite of 13 years of university community pressure for divestment, the Harvard Corporation has remained a strong supporter of continued American economic involvement in south Africa, both in its public statements and in its proxy votes...
...offering instead a generous early-retirement program. Du Pont estimated at the time that about 5,500 workers would cash in on the deal. But apparently the terms were far more attractive than the company realized. Du Pont plans to announce this week that about 12,000 workers intend to leave. This number is expected to include some highly talented employees whom the company would be sorry to lose. Du Pont's lucrative deal provided for pension benefits to be calculated as if the employees had five extra years of age and company service. As a result, the pension...
...college courses. The CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF CUBA, in cooperation with local tourism officials, offers classes in Spanish and agricultural science to those slumming their way through the Carribean workers' paradise. Fortytwo Canadian tourists last year took courses offered at the university, located in Villa Clara province, and tourism officials intend to offer an expanded program this year. Granma Weekly Review, Havana...
Harvard activists said they now intend to concentrate on educational efforts...
...Harry Blackmun, 76, keeps up an active schedule of public appearances and shows no sign that he is thinking about quitting. Court watchers have been noting for years that Thurgood Marshall, 76, is in poor physical shape, but he has remarked privately, "I was appointed for life and intend to serve out my term." William Brennan, who will be 79 in April, is the oldest of the Justices, but remains spry mentally and physically. Remarried in 1983, the Eisenhower appointee seems less limited by his years than his younger colleague William Rehnquist, 60, whose back problems send him home from...