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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...construction job. He initially submitted one of the three lowest bids for the dining hall because he thought that a small loss on this job would be cancelled out by future possibilities bidding on Harvard jobs. He later reduced his bid by $15,000 during the final negotiations, in order to assure himself of the project. "Through my inexperience as a negotiator, I let myself," Cruz says. He adds that he was also not familiar enough with the type of project to realize that Harvard's six-month schedule was unrealistic. If he were to bid on a similar project...
...Harvard lacked sensitivity in dealing with him. When the job started going over the scheduled completion date they threatened to call in his bonding company, a move he claims was motivated by the fact that they assumed that since he was a minority contractor he would go bankrupt. In order to avoid the bonding company coming in, Cruz agreed to settle for the monthly payments the University decided on, rather than the amounts he really needed. He claims he had to settle for the University's decision on the cash for the value of the work because a bonding company...
Ohio has a problem with sulfur dioxide air pollution, and the EPA has ordered its utilities to meet strict limits on smokestack emissions. But to burn Ohio's high-sulfur coal, say the companies, would necessitate installing expensive scrubbing devices. They rebelled at the cost; one utility reckoned that compliance with the EPA order could cause a 24% rise in electric rates. Instead, the companies said, they would import low-sulfur coal from Western or Appalachian states. That in turn riled the miners, who argue that if the utilities buy out-of-state coal, demand for Ohio coal will...
...good-luck Teddy bears, jumped into the water and swam away with a gaggle of gold medals. No sooner had 500 journalists written stories beginning "Thank heaven for little girls . . ." than the entire U.S. women's swimming team retired to study for their driver's licenses. But in short order, pools were filled with a new generation of water sprites, and America's junior high school swimming juggernaut splashed relentlessly on: five of seven gold medals in the Rome Games of 1960; six of eight at Tokyo in 1964; eleven of 14 in the 1968 Mexico City Olympiad; eight...
...rose at 5 a.m. in order to squeeze in five hours?eight to ten miles?in the water each day, supplemented by thrice-weekly workouts in the weight room. She even turned a bad break into a boon. Last fall she fractured her right leg playing on a swing. Outfitted with a fiber-glass cast, she went back into the water. Unable to use her legs, she swam for six weeks using just her arms and shoulders; the strength gained from hauling a useless leg through lap after lap resulted in dramatically faster times in the butterfly and breast stroke...