Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year's defense allowed just nine goals during the season, and star goalie Barb Mahan will continue to frustrate other teams this year...
...Nine student groups claimed at that time, and many groups still maintain today, that Harvard helps to sustain the South African government and its apartheid system by investing in corporations active in that country. A demonstration of more that 1000 students on the Pusey steps, their march to Holyoke center, and confrontation with President Bok on April 24, 1978 started widespread student support for the demands of the student groups...
Harvard has nine salary grades for non-exempt employees (workers who must be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week under the Fair Labor Standards Act). Cantor says the largest sectors are grades three to five, where the wages range from a minimum of $667 monthly in grade three to a maximum of $1070 in grade five for a 35-hour work week. A beginning secretarial job may be grade three, and a beginning research assistant's job is grade five. Merit--the quality of employees' work and their assumption of additional duties--determines promotion to higher...
...unionized Harvard employees, and they are hardly ever solved at the bargaining table. The police union has yet to meet to discuss the demands they will present Harvard when their contract expires December 31, but job security will undoubtedly be one of their major bargaining points. In the last nine years the number of uniformed policemen has declined from 60 to 41 as the force has taken on a more administrative and computer-oriented style...
...weekly problem sets are really no problem--they are basically a rehash of Fisher's lectures. Grading is relatively easy; students receive four out of a possible six points on each problem set for just following instructions. And although head section man Bruce Patton urges students to hand in nine of the assignments, few complete more than the required number...