Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to figures released by the AFL-CIO last year, Alabama has some of the worst workmen's compensation and unemployment insurance laws in the country. It was one of only five states limiting the time a worker injured on the job could take to obtain medical treatment and one of only seven states to limit the amount of money spent for such treatment...
Standing on one side of the controversy are the so-called "Reds," who espouse Chairman Mao Tse-tung's idea of continual revolution and selfless commitment to "serve the people," John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday. Mao believes the revolution is betrayed by bureaucrats who obtain privileges and turn elitist, Fairbank added...
...founder of this University. That statue was placed there by workers. The buildings of Harvard were constructed, the trees were chopped down, the land was ploughed up and foundations were put in by workers. Workers were here long before the vast bureaucracy of managers and administrators. When will we obtain the right to be heard, to be consulted on issues that affect our lives? When will we take our rightful place as members of the Harvard community...
...truck-driver jobs with Bowman Transportation Inc. in Atlanta, which until 1970 openly followed a policy of hiring whites only. The majority opinion, written by Justice William J. Brennan, asserted that if the court merely awarded a job to an applicant who was initially discriminated against, he "will never obtain his rightful place in the hierarchy of seniority." In a dissenting opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger questioned the wisdom of courts granting seniority to some workers at the expense of others. Wrote Burger: "I cannot join in judicial approval of 'robbing Peter to pay Paul...
Peter Clifton '49, director of the Harvard College Fund, is predicting that he expects to obtain $5.25 million compared to $4.85 million for last year. In this years drive there has been a 5 per cent increase in the number of donors...