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Whether Harvard's union-busting tactics are based on misguided paternalism or outright contempt for workers' fights, it is high time that students in this University take a stand and object to use of their tuition dollars to subsidize the University's unfair labor practices. Michael Dinnerstein Harvard College '82 Harvard Clerical Worker '82-'83 Harvard Law School...
...victory, because we need the dogs, but I think they should have outright turned it down instead of sending it for further study," said Dr. Ronald D. Hunt, director of animal reources for Harvard labs...
...committee decided to table to bill instead of rejecting it outright because many of its 15 members, "lean towards the side that says dogs shouldn't be used in experiments," said John P. Carvello, staff assistant to Chairman Rep. Raymond A. Jordan (D-Hampden...
...still considered a toss-up between the controversial front runners, José Napoleón Duarte, 58, of the center-left Christian Democratic Party (P.D.C.), and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 40, leader of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance, known as ARENA. There was a good chance that neither candidate would win the outright majority required for election, and that a runoff vote would be necessary within 30 days after Sunday's results were certified...
...press was nervous about itself. It had played a major role in bringing down three Presidents in a row-two of them Democrats even if they were Southerners, let it be remembered. Even within the press, some thought (though few violated tribal taboos far enough to say so outright) that there had been excesses. Besides, there is an ultimate control on the press: if its readers do not believe it and do not trust it or if they think it lacks a standard of fair play, they will stop heeding it, and it will die. Therefore the press was inclined...