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Back at the other schools, meanwhile, either because they are centralized or because they are not restricted by the House structure, students can select flexible and diverse meal options. At Cornell, students opt for the commitment to a contract on a purely voluntary basis. Plans range from a three-meals-a-day, seven-days-a-week option to the two-meals-a-day, five-days-a-week fare. Students pay an unrefundable $60 membership fee at the beginning of the year and this entitles them to any meal option. It also allows them to switch from plan to plan...
...responding to the five women's testimony, a Ropes and Gray lawyer representing the University attempted to undermine a Massachusetts statute that protects the right of "female employees" to opt for unemployment rather than work between midnight and six in the morning. The Harvard lawyer argued that the statute is discriminatory, which indeed it is. Yet Harvard's contention that the MESD should therefore dismiss the statute as unconstitutional, when no state or federal law court has handed down a decision on the matter, overlooks the genuine human problems that caused the women to refuse the "graveyard shift" jobs...
...arguing the case for the five workers, Richard Coleman, an attorney for Local 26, cited a Massachusetts statute that makes it legitimate for "female employees" to opt for unemployment benefits rather than take a job that involves working between midnight and 6 a.m., Kuntz said...
...discriminatory signs, obtain some favorable rulings by the courts and push the Congress to pass remedial legislation, the nation would react in accord with those precepts and principles of its boasted religious ethic. It was hoped and by some believed, that the vast majority in this country would opt to develop a nation undergirded by tolerance, forgiveness, non-violence and love...
...widely blamed for the party's setback in last month's elections for the Diet's 511-seat lower house, in which L.D.P. strength dropped to 249 representatives-a loss of 16 (TIME, Dec. 20). In order to continue governing, the L.D.P. has had to co-opt a dozen conservative representatives who ran as independents in the election with Liberal Democratic backing...