Word: mergers
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Keenan is on Harvard's Committee on Admissions, on the Faculty Committee on Harvard-Radcliffe Relations (which is discussing merger), and on the President's Advisory Committee for Community Affairs...
...last month at the U.S. Catholic Bishops' meeting, where Catholic dialogues with those two churches were declared to be "moving to quite an advanced stage." Lutherans, however, have not yet established full intercommunion among their own U.S. denominations. And Episcopalians are potential participants in the proposed multichurch Protestant merger, the Church of Christ Uniting. Should the Episcopal Church join the new superchurch, the questions of Episcopal belief, the Eucharist and ministerial orders could become more complicated...
Firmer Command. To the often-squabbling U.S. labor movement, Reuther's death may bring a period of surface calm. Although he helped mightily to negotiate the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger in 1955, Reuther was a constant disturber of the peace within the federation, needling its officials to conduct bigger organizing campaigns and do more to help civil rights and other causes. In exasperation over the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s slowness to heed these pleas-and no doubt in frustration over his own dimming chances to become A.F.L.-C.I.O. president -he led the U.A.W. out of the union federation...
...labor movement. Fired by Ford for union activity in 1933, he later worked as an organizer for the fledgling U.A.W., survived severe shotgun wounds in 1948 to pioneer the guaranteed annual wage principle for the automobile industry in 1955. Reuther led the C.I.O. into a historic merger with the A.F.L., but grew so discontented with George Meany's leadership that in 1968 he withdrew his carefully honest union to form a bizarre alliance with the Teamsters. In frustration, he watched the American labor movement dilute its once-ferocious militancy...
...institutions have been slowly metging over the past several years but "the university administration refused to complete the merger within the next year," she said. "I hope that my resignation will bring the issue to the point of debate...