Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University's high-powered opposition. As the union drive wore on, their skepticism seemed justified; Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, relied on an expensive team of Ropes and Grey lawyers to tie up District 65's bid for an organizing election in a maze of legal challenges. Harvard contended that the union could not organize just the Med Area, but rather that Med Area workers would have to seek representation in a bargaining unit that would include all University clerical and technical employees. Furthermore, the University argued that District 65's proposed bargaining unit included several groups...
...development, and one that Steiner now says gave him the first indication that Harvard's position might not be invulnerable. Then last May, the NLRB delivered the real shocker, reversing the regional Board decision and ruling that the Med Area was a "separate community of interest" that District 65 legally could organize apart from the rest of the University campus. The Harvard attorneys, stunned by what they considered the Board's ignorance of precedent, saw their legal defense pared down to the argument that the proposed bargaining unit wrongly included professionals...
...where human interaction has been reduced through technological advances to the rawest uses of power, to the crunch of bones and the smell of burning flesh. The United States has helped the Shah build up an apparatus of repression under which people can be interrogated without recourse to any legal process, freeing the Shah to spend his country's wealth without questions from the population...
Back in the days when women, lumped together with criminals and the insane, were disenfranchised and mounted police rode down legal pickets, bonds were formed between the growing women's movement and expanding labor movements. After 1900, nationalist-progressive policies threatened the ordered society. The career of Florence Luscomb, who suceeded radical feminists such as Charlotte Gilman, Jane Addams and Alice Paul, was closely intertwined with both movements. Luscomb has devoted most of her life to jabbing plump and comfortable consciences. She began campaigning for votes for women before World War I, and continued to do so even after...
Jewish authorities hold that a Jew who adopts Christianity - or any other religion - is a meshummad (apostate), a grievous sinner who incurs various penalties. He may not be a witness in a Jewish legal proceeding or count in the minyan, or quorum for prayer. He remains technically a Jew, however, since the Talmud says that "a Jew who sins is still...