Word: letterization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death that unnerved the elder Kennedy most completely. Not long after the disaster, the family received a letter that their son had posted just before he died. Rose Kennedy later recalled that "Joe simply threw the letter on the table and collapsed in his chair with his head in his hand, saying over and over that nothing would ever be the same again...
Just one week after the University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) released a joint statement on casual labor, HUCTW has issued its own open letter on the subject, calling casual labor a "critical issue for this great institution...
...letter--which was sent to HUCTW members this week and will be sent to key Harvard administrators next week--comes at a time when HUCTW is negotiating with the University to develop measures to stop abuse of the casual payroll...
...Some members of the Harvard community are being treated unfairly," said the letter, which urged people to report casual labor abuses to the union. "At least a small number of those are facing real economic hardship. We can not look the other way without perpetuating the problem of working poverty...
Merry D. Touborg, the university spokesperson for labor issues, said she had not yet seen a copy of the HUCTW letter and could not comment...