Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard, where about 40 per cent of medical research produces such wastes, officials are scared. "If this continues," our whole research program will be thrown into confusion," Jacob A. Shapiro, radiation officer in the University's environmental health and safety office, said yesterday...
...well as portions of 15 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, the Unitversity is the area's largest college producer of low-level wastes, Interex spokesman Joseph Rosenberg explains. In 1978, Interex hauled away about 3500 30-gallon barrels of Harvard-generated liquid sludge, for about $50 a barrel. Now, says Jacob A. Shapiro of the University's office of environmental health and safety, Harvard is paying about twice that to haul its wastes all the way to Washington. Rosenberg says "it is very, very likely that costs have doubled or tripled" in the last year. Downriver at the Massachusetts Institute...
...matter "should have been dealt with by now." Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Frank Church declared that "the Senate will require a certification by the President that Soviet combat forces are no longer deployed in Cuba, if the way is to be cleared for consideration of SALT." New York Senator Jacob Javits, senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, was calmer. Said he: "I don't believe this issue ought to be blown up into some major national crisis...
...DIED. Jacob S. Potofsky, 84, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1946-72); in New York City. At 15, the Ukrainian-born Potofsky joined fellow pantsmakers in a strike that led to the founding of the Amalgamated by Sidney Hillman. As Hillman's protege, he helped to introduce such benefits as union banks, cooperative housing and health centers. Elected president upon Hillman's death, Potofsky became known as a masterful negotiator and a political activist...
...years ago, he declared: "What in the name of God is strategic superiority? What is the significance of it?" But last week he recanted, explaining that the statement had been made "after an exhausting negotiation" and that it "reflected fatigue and exasperation, not analysis." When New York's Jacob Javits later referred to this change of heart, Kissinger jokingly alluded to his famous ego, saying that this confession of error was "a historic occasion...