Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Yale's teaching assistants have gone on strike to protest low salaries, graduate students at Ivy League colleges, Stanford and MIT have not unionized and are not likely to do so in the near future, officials at the schools...
...Stanford, the graduate students' most recent run-in with the administration took place 15 years ago. Graduate school research assistants (R.A.'s), frustrated with low salariesand long hours, staged a walk-out and refused to resume work. The university took legal action against the R.A.'s, forcing them to return to work, says Mollie Goetz, student service officer at the graduate school...
...charge low tuition rates outright for every one," Fox says...
...plot (surprise, surprise) revolves around the competition between a likable but apparently low-born shepherd Strephon (Arthur Fuscaldo), who happens to be a fairy from the waist up, and therefore immortal, yet insufficiently prestigious to vie with the rapacious royals for the fair Phyllis' (Laurie Myers) hand in marriage...
...building up federal housing subsidies dismantled by the Reagan Administration. Specifically, the group recommended adding almost $3.4 billion to the $13.8 billion budgeted for federally subsidized housing in fiscal 1988. Some $3 billion would be funneled to states to finance a new Housing Opportunity Program to build or rehabilitate low-cost housing; states would be required to match half that outlay, for a total of $4.5 billion. An additional $380 million would go to double the number of housing units for which the Department of Housing and Urban Development pays part of the rent for needy tenants...