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When and if the Cambridge clerical and technical workers form their union, the Medical Area group will probably work closely enough with them to offset the disadvantages of not having one large union. But now, the Medical Area employees are already organized. Considering the differences in the location and the nature of their work from other clerical and technical workers here, their request to be allowed to have their own bargaining unit should be granted. Harvard's attempts to change an administrative structure to stop such a union should be recognized as no more than a sham...
...said that eliminating the present distinction between middle and lower group courses--one of the reforms still under consideration--and offering a choice of classes to all freshmen is being "seriously considered." He said that the current resentment and stigma felt by students in lower group courses more than offset the possible advantages of possible homogeneity of talent within the group...
...that a professional curriculum allows them too little time to convey an adequate understanding of their disciplines. As a result, they will surely press for more space in the curriculum. But it would be wise to resist these pressures. The apparent precision of the formal techniques is more than offset by their limited usefulness in resolving the unruly problems that actually confront public officials. As a result, excessive emphasis on technique will simply leave the student unprepared to deal with real problems or, worse yet, encourage him to distort reality in order to achieve apparent solutions by formal analysis...
...Canadian, West German, French and Italian aluminum companies that mine the West African country's immense deposits. The tax follows the precedent set by Jamaica last spring, when it increased taxes and royalties on its bauxite by 800%. Guinea plans to use the $40 million to help offset the higher oil-import costs that are squeezing the budgets of, all the less developed countries...
...vice-president hardly performs the tasks described in the Wilson report. Instead of a public relations figure spouting the Harvard line to stepped-on community groups, the External Affairs vice president was to have actual authority over the planning and real estate offices. The officer in charge would then offset the real estate office (which is by nature interested primarily in meeting low-cost University land need) by "representing to the University the demands and interests of community groups and individuals and pressing the University to take account of those interests even if so doing would raise land costs, increase...