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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That message was easy to lose sight of in a year when so much happened that was treated like it meant so little. But for one brief period, people cared and cut through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights...
...ruling by the NLRB on any of these mechanical questions can cast a long shadow. When the board ruled in 1984 that a union could not organize support staff in one area, but must expand its campaign to include the 3300 workers throughout the University, it meant a four-year delay until the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) could petition for a referendum...
Women of today do need to share common experiences of working in what has long been a male-dominated career world. But women no longer need to be forced into feelings of inferiority by the institutions that are meant to equalize their chances once they are spit out into that world. There should be no more xeroxed reunion books, no more acceptances to Radcliffe, no more Radcliffe required on women's diplomas...
Reagan holds a characteristically American view that great leaders affect history. When Gorbachev visited Washington last December, the President quoted Emerson: "There is properly no history, only biography." This meant, Reagan explained, "that it is not enough to talk about history as simply forces and factors." In some ways Reagan was right: his personal ideology and stubbornness have led to a nascent strategic-arms accord far more ambitious than anyone would have imagined when he took office. Yet in more fundamental ways, the agreement being shaped is not all that different from a SALT III treaty that a President Walter...
...chorus of 200,000 serenaded Pope John Paul II, who had just turned 68, with a thundering Happy Birthday last week in the Paraguayan town of Encarnacion. During a later appearance, the impassioned chant "Freedom, freedom, freedom!" greeted the Pontiff. The cry was really meant for Paraguay's ironfisted dictator, General Alfredo Stroessner, and the Pope quietly echoed...