Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administration's seven-year tenure Harvard has employed a combination of legal expertise and an aggressive and intimidating bargaining style to either deflect or squelch labor discontent. Harvard's experienced legal staff delayed organizing efforts in the Medical Area and at Harvard's teaching hospitals with a long series of court battles. When delaying tactics fail, the University often resorts to subtle intimidation, perfectly legal, of course. In the case of organizing efforts at the teaching hospitals, Harvard filed a lawsuit against the director of the union, accusing him of assault--a charge the judge later threw out of court...
...long negotiations with the kitchen workers, the University continued its tactical marriage of legal expertise and threat. Harvard negotiators resolutely refused to improve the kitchen workers' benefits package because the University is conducting a benefits review. More talk, more committee meetings, more study, a long, drawn-out process that guarantees nothing to the worker. When the union membership refused to ratify the contract without a compromise on benefits and openly expressed a lack of faith in University promises, Edward W. Powers, Harvard's chief labor negotiator, threatened to withdraw wage concessions. And the union fell into line. Powers also repeatedly...
Around the nation yesterday voters endorsed proposals to limit taxes or spending in five states, rejected propositions to extend legal gambling in three states, and favored an ordinance to restrict the legal rights of homosexuals in Florida while opposing a similar ordinance in California...
...Question One is approved, the State Constitution will be amended to allow cities and towns to tax property according to different "classes," with each class of property owners taxed at a different and appropriate rate. That would in effect give legal grounding to the status quo, preserving the right of homeowners to pay less in taxes than businesses...
...best songs on Dylan's undervalued Street-Legal are heartbroken ballads, wounded, surly and defenseless by turns. Dylan delivers them in typically left-field fashion, backed by three women singers as he lets the songs rip like some Bleecker Street parody of a Vegas lounge lizard. In concert, with billowing shirt, plunging neckline and a crooner's microphone calisthenics, Dylan works his way through his standard repertory and sometimes looks as if he is auditioning for The Gong Show...