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...union's list of demands includes a 20-per-cent wage raise, improved fringe benefits and additional holidays...
...often has your proctor sought you out?" and rated amount and quality of help their advisers provided in clarifying their career goals. Susan W. Lewis, associate dean of freshmen, will pore over the stacks of forms, synopsize the comments for each proctor, and analyze the results. The 94-per-cent response will give the FDO its most scientific indication of its performance this year...
...some day-- a some day city planners foresee within 15 years--commerce will return to these barrens. Cambridge politicians speak almost reverently of The Boom, the citywide economic miracle that will end fiscal trial and muffle social discontent. They cite statistics--a 60 per-cent increase in the tax base, 40,000 new jobs. Their phrases include "irresistible momentum" and "unprecedented growth." David Vickery, the city's chief planner, says, "If we went away and did nothing, the market would still operate to expand industry in Cambridge...
While union sources said Local 26 will stick to its original list of demands--including a 20-per-cent across the board raise, improved fringe benefits and additional holidays--Local 26 will tell Powers which demands are priorities...
...shop steward's letter had termed, the University's original offer--voted down by the membership in March--of successive 10-, 9-, and 8-per-cent wage increases, "a public relations gimmick." Powers last week called the charge "ridiculous...