Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BGMA officers rejected the BSEIU when they became fearful that the affiliation with the BSEIU might mean affiliation with unskilled persons and therefore wage losses. "I don't want anyone, especially management, to mistake me for a janitor," one BGMA carpenter said. The BGMA's officers also destroyed what few BSEIU authorization cards had been signed...
Thus, they reasoned that it could well be late 1967 or early 1968 before bargaining sessions with Harvard got underway. This would mean a time span of approximately a year and a half between the technical expiration date of the BGMA's last contract and the beginning of the bargaining for a new contract. The union would be able to get only the smallest pay settlements retroactive to the last contract because of the great time span. Thus, they felt that Harvard was operating primarily out of economic motives and not out of consideration for its employees in insisting upon...
There is no assurance that the new group will survive the November election. Nor is their any certainty that their defeat will mean a return to the politics of the past. Nothing seems predictable today for the City's politicians. Traditional politics were based on a councillor's personality and his availability to his constituents for advice, favors, or more camraderie; issues in City elections have usually been non-existent. Many of the councillors in the new coalition grew up in this kind of politics and still act as if things had not changed. Yet, in taking their radical departure...
...pass-fail. Encouraged by Dean Monro, and tired of going over the same ground again and again, the committee wrote the framework of a pass-fail fifth course proposal and presented it to the Faculty's Committee on Educational Policy for approval and details. Acceptance by the CEP would mean that Faculty approval was virtually certain. With Monro presenting the HPC's case, the CEP accepted the proposal and filled in the administrative details. It stipulated that the pass-fail option, once declared for one course, could not be switched to another or dropped...
...approaching the computer business with a different viewpoint. The French government expects to put at least $112 million in its Plan Calcul, which will help small French computer companies to pool know-how in order to cut a bigger Gallic figure in the field. This obviously will mean more competition for Bull and make its comeback that much more difficult...