Word: mertonism
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...students then moved to Brown's University Hall, where they presented acting president Merton Stoltz with a letter demanding the appointment of a faculty-student committee to "arbitrate" the library strike, as well as a blanket amnesty for the 11 arrested students...
...student dining hall, in an effort to prevent food delivery and garbage collection. The crowd dispersed when police arrived after almost an hour. "Students in a Vise," the Brown student group that coordinated the sit-in, also conducted a candlelight march last week to the home of Acting President Merton Stoltz to present him with a petition calling for binding arbitration in the contract dispute. The petition was signed by over half the student body...
...takes 32 people in the Office of Research Contracts (ORC) on the fourth floor of Holyoke Center to administer all these funds. The office, run by Merton C. Barstow Jr., handles the legal and administrative side of research funds for all ten faculties in the University...
...Saturday evening of a hard campaign week, and the candidate is tired. His expressive hands play with thick budgetary studies by the Brookings Institution that lie on the coffee table before him. Scattered at his feet are books that he has had little time for recently: Thomas Merton on Zen, Arnold Toynbee on the future, Idries Shah on Sufi parables. As the twilight fades, the soothing voice of Judy Collins drifts through the room from the hi-fi in the corner: " 'Cause she's touched your perfect body with her mind...
...under a single pension plan throughout his work life will always be better off than his fellow worker who changes jobs." Noting that the bill allows employers to choose the vesting plan that costs the least and therefore provides the least protection to the employee, Ohio State Law Professor Merton C. Bernstein calls the measure "a grave disappointment" and worries that its passage will destroy the impetus for pension reform in the future. He has a point: the present bill was eight years in the drafting, under intense lobbying pressure all the while. Still, the act should go far toward...