Word: longing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three weeks from tomorrow, Cambridge is holding local elections. Three weeks may seem like a long way off. By November 7, Halloween will have come and gone, and Thanksgiving will be just around the corner. More to the point, however, tomorrow--October 17--is the last day on which Cambridge residents can register to vote in this fall's elections. Students can register at the Cambridge Election Commission, 362 Green Street in Central Square, today or tomorrow...
...Against long odds, the UMWA prevailed. And despite some setbacks, it has remained true to its purpose of protecting workers. When the union's leadership became infected with corruption in the 1960s, the rank-and-file membership ousted the corrupt administration of Tony Boyle in a democratic election...
Labor unions, women's groups and civil libertarians denounced the decision, which gives a boost to the fetal-protection policies that are spreading throughout the chemical, rubber, semiconductor and automotive industries. Challenges to such employment practices keep arising, though, and before long one may wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court...
...stability-impaired wordsmith we met 15 years ago in author Friedman's earlier novel About Harry Towns is still frisky, still foolish. Still capable, in fact, of careering into a writers' bar in lower Manhattan wearing, because of a recent mugging, only a sheet, and this early in a long evening. Friedman is funny and reliably irrelevant. Writing, he seems to be saying, is less dignified than the mail-order truss business, which is a truth on which to hang your...
...track the billions of dollars in electronic money transfers that move in and out of the U.S. each day. The goal: to identify and perhaps confiscate at least some of the more than $100 billion in drug funds laundered through the international banking system each year. Finance experts have long called for increased surveillance of so-called wire transfers. The task will be daunting because $1 trillion or more moves through banking wires each day, and the Government lacks the resources to monitor...