Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James, a third-year law student who worked with the Harlan County UMW in its 1973 strike, cited time-consuming work and sophisticated union-busting tactics as the two major problems of union organizing...
...have clients who are probably the major manufacturers of nuclear reactors in the world. They assure me that the rationale for them continuing their production of reactors is simply because the money is too good to pass up," Howell Hurst, an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate and an energy conservation consultant, said last night...
...AMENDMENTS to the Core Curriculum proposal passed by the Faculty at its Tuesday meeting warrant approval as minor liberalizations of the plan, but the Core itself remains a major mistake that the Faculty now appears very close to making. The amendments authorize a standing committee on the Core Curriculum to establish a series of departmental by-passes to the Core requirements, and to investigate the possibility of a "floater" provision that would allow students to shift a one-half Core course to another field of study...
...Faculty will almost certainly vote on the proposal; barring a major upset, the Core will be implemented. Yet the Core misses the mark. It assumes that students should become familiar with a certain established body of material, but the Core will not be an improvement over Gen Ed. It will merely replace it in a more streamlined version that will further isolate the Faculty from undergraduates and decrease the value of an already problematic Harvard education...
...between the student and Harvard is not considered a major factor by admissions officers, but Archie C. Epps III, dean of students and a member of the admissions committee, says, "Given that a student has achieved a general level of overall excellence, we are concerned with whether there is a place at Harvard to hang...