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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those measures, as Carter well knew, could have made matters worse. By using the Taft-Hartley Act, he could obtain an 80-day back-to-work injunction against the miners, but they might well choose to ignore the ruling. Seizure of the coal mines, on the other hand, would put pressure on mineowners, but it might have taken a month to get the necessary legislation through Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Acts--Just inTime | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...Administrative Board voted on Tuesday not to take disciplinary action against those students wrongly accused of not filing their cards, Harry Orf, senior tutor of Mather House, said yesterday. The students will have to file new cards but the Administrative Board will not make them obtain professors' signatures as the General Academic Rules require, Belliveau said...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber and Harry Litman, S | Title: Several Study Cards Lost In Registrar Office Shuffle | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

...group of students trying to organize a chapter of the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) at Harvard will begin a door-to-door petition drive tonight in an effort to obtain the approval of half the undergraduate student body, a provision that Massachusetts PIRG requires before a chapter can be established on a college campus...

Author: By Michael E.silver, | Title: PIRG to Begin Petition Drive | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

...UNIVERSITY has gone ahead with construction of its Medical Area power project over many objections, assuming that it would routinely obtain the necessary approvals from various government agencies. But the University's headstrong rush to build may now cost it heavily, at a time when rising fees are of concern to all students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boondoggle | 2/17/1978 | See Source »

...irritated by the hordes that streamed past his home on narrow Moody Road. Charging that group jogging constituted a public danger to motorists and to the runners themselves, he persuaded the town council to draw up an ordinance that would force two or more joggers running together to obtain a special permit from police. Enraged by such Big Brotherism, the joggers sprinted down to city hall last week to plead their case. One spokesman for the runners pointed out that more than 250,000 miles had been jogged in the Los Altos area without an accident. A woman settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Runners' Rights | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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