Word: melvins
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After a series of hearings, Cambridge Health and Hospitals Commissioner Melvin H. Chalfen citing the risk to Cambridge residents, issued an unprecedented restriction on the use of nerve gas agents within city limits in March...
Xenophobia is not the force behind today's serious efforts to reform immigration. Simpson and other proponents recognize that most new immigrants, like the generations who came before them, work long and hard, and as much as possible on their own. Says Melvin Holli, professor of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago: "Their work ethic serves them well, and it serves us well. In a sense, they are refurbishing our work ethic." The new immigrants, says Lawrence H. Fuchs, chairman of American Studies at Brandeis, "have gumption, courage, ambition. They want...
...doubt that it could be put into practice any time soon, if at all. Says David Glasner, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research: "Workers simply prefer having a known wage rate and do not want to take the risk of a variable income." Contends Melvin Reder, a professor of urban and labor economics at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business: "Weitzman's proposal is like the advice of a philosopher to a King, not to a President and Congress in a democratic society...
...March interview with Melvin Reynolds, one of Jackson's top policy makers. The Crimson learned why Jackson had decided to visit various inner-city high schools on a drug-fighting campaign. Jackson, Reynolds told us, believes that unless our youth stop clotting their souls with LSD, our soldiers and our leaders will soon lose touch with purity and threaten our national security. Jackson, he said, has decided that moral purity is the only true base from which to grow...
During the unseemly scramble among American lawyers to sign up victims of the gas-leak disaster in Bhopal, India, the headlines were studded with the likes of San Francisco's Melvin Belli. But in a Manhattan federal court last week, when the government of India filed what could be the most significant of the Bhopal lawsuits, it was represented by a law firm that had not even sped to the scene. Its name draws a blank among nonlawyers: Robins, Zelle, Larson & Kaplan of Minneapolis. The choice, however, was no surprise to many in the legal profession. In the arcane field...