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...face of it, Law 815 hardly seemed a piece of villainous legislation. Passed last year to help raise Greek universities to European standards, it addressed some of the problems of an educational system that is widely recognized to be a shambles. But each successive reform roused the ire of either the faculty or the students or both. Under the law, for example, all professors, who have long reigned supreme in their own "chairs" of tenure, will be grouped in departments administered by a pool of professors and two elected students. The law also takes aim at another hallowed institution...
Commission Chairman Michael Pertschuk, who was appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1977, has become the lightning rod of criticism against the FTC. An ebullient, Yale-trained lawyer with a crusader's rapid-fire zeal, Pertschuk has further raised the ire of both congressional leaders and business. Senator Ford accuses him of turning the agency from law enforcement to social planning. Last year a federal judge banned Pertschuk from all involvement in the children's television case, concluding that he had become too biased against the cereal companies. Other critics charged that Pertschuk was an intemperate, excessive regulator...
...many have no wish to return to the uncertain prospects of Khomeini's Iran. Temporarily, at least, the U.S. has become an uncomfortable haven for the students. "People are going to start calling for our heads," worried one Iranian at Columbia. To avoid the ire of Americans, many Iranian students have adopted a low profile, saying little or nothing about recent events in Tehran. "Iranians usually don't take things passively," said Marilyn Thompson, director of foreign students at Central Y.M.C.A. Community College in Chicago. "But right now most of them feel that they better cool...
...customers have had a rough time this year. Says he: "We did a hell of a job on the traveling public this summer. We made a shambles of things." The usual problems were aggravated by squabbles with the unions. In June the pilots staged a slowdown to express their ire over the pace of negotiations for a new contract; more than 500 flights were delayed that month; and 15% were canceled. In July more than 800 out of 6,300 flights were either late or scrubbed because of bad weather and air traffic control delays. Then, in August, the peak...