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Union officials, who began negotiations asking for a 25-per cent raise in the first year and 15-per-cent in the second, appeared satisfied with several non-salary concessions be management. Those included...
Management did not vield on two major union demands. First, the proceeds of a 15-per-cent surcharge added to all bulls at the Club will still go only to the Club--not to the union membership. Tipping will remain prohibited. And pension benefits--which give most workers $4 per month for each year worked at the Club--will remain unchanged...
...bone growth in humans. Announced at the beginning of May, "osteoinduction," a technique advanced by surgeons and researchers at the Medical School, uses bones from crushed cadavers to prompt bone regeneration. Since cadaver bones are easier to obtain than bone from a patient's body, osteoinduction should prove 100-per-cent effective, 35 per cent better than the old process...
Medical researchers also laid claim to 100-per-cent accuracy in early January, when they announced what they called the first reliable test to identify carriers of cystic fybrosis, the most common lethal inherited disease among white Americans. And, although they have not yet determined the accuracy rate, a team of Med School physicians in November discovered a method of sickle-cell anemia treatment that may be a major, if first, step in curing the often-fatal disease, which afflicts 30,000 to 60,000 Black Americans a year...
...tenured position--has blocked women from advancing into tenured posts. Women, they note, constituted 3.4 per cent of the 1979-80 Faculty (when comparative statistics were last compiled)--a figure below Michigan University's 6.8 per cent. Stanford University's 6.3 per cent, MIT's 5.2 per cent and Yale University's 4.5 per cent. Several say instances of racial discrimination have impeded minorities from gaining promotion toward tenure. In this area, statistics reveal less: in 1979-80. Harvard's 5.9-per-cent minority portion of its faculty was dwarfed only by Stanford's 8.0 per cent among selected universities...