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...projected to rise to 40%. The number of workers entering the labor market will decline during the '80s, and by the end of the decade there will be perhaps a 10% shortage of office employees. Without machines to help them, white-collar workers will not be able to obtain and use all the information needed to run modern companies...
...stomped out of a meeting with the manager of custodial services when he told her she needed permission before doing union business during working hours. The union's contract stipulates that officials such as Bonislawski or Gardin must receive permission--but, Bonislawski points out, Harvard makes it difficult to obtain permission. Gardin and Bonislawski filed a grievance of their own, alleging discrimination...
University and U.S. officials said yesterday "encouraging" developments have increased the chances that a Polish dissident poet, who was invited to teach here more than two years ago but has been unable to obtain an exit visa, will be permitted to leave Poland...
...decision better be made mighty quick," Michael Oppenheimer, Lecturer in Astronomy, said earlier this week. If the OMB does not budget money for the next fiscal year, NASA will be unable to obtain equipment necessary for close observation of its "fly-by," he added...
...rumors." Privately, some State Department veterans were dismayed that a pro-Iranian policy was being concocted on the hustings for what might in part be domestic political reasons. One cause for diplomatic skepticism was Iran's crippling internal political dissensions, which had frustrated all past attempts to obtain the freedom of the hostages. Another was the lack of any reliable channel for the direct negotiations that would be necessary to seal an agreement...