Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four days after 3,500 machinists walked off the job to protest a proposed 28 percent pay cut, President Bush set the tone for the public debate on the strike: "I would urge [the striking workers] not to make the public--the innocent traveling public--a pawn in this dispute...
...unfortunate that the question in the Eastern strike has been, "Why are they screwing up my travel plans?" instead of, "Why won't Lorenzo make any reasonable concessions to the workers?" The public assumes that unions, not management, are automatically to blame for labor disputes...
...proposal to build a hotel on the former site of the Gulf station is a perfect example. Harvard solicited community input on the design of the hotel and tried to make sure it would include things the neighborhood wanted. But it was not until members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences criticized the project that the University sat up and realized that the basic idea of putting a hotel on the site needed to be reevaluated. Community residents who objected to the project received little attention...
Obviously, Harvard cannot please everyone. But the University needs to recognize that it cannot simply make decisions unilaterally. Indeed, it is impossible for Harvard to separate itself from the community. Many of the people who live in the city are Harvard affiliates--graduate students, professors and employees. The University is not about to go anywhere; we all have to live with the consequences of the decisions made today...
...amendment completely diverts attention from the only way the council can truly improve. Its members must continue to listen to students and constantly re-evaluate its efforts. The time being spent on the current referendum would be better employed considering ways to make council elections in the houses more competitive. Your representatives, not the chair, are the ones who put the word "student" in student government...