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...look on in detached amusement (one student even explained to me that she would work as a volunteer scab in case of a dining hall workers' stroke because, "I'm a liberal economist, I don't believe in strikes."); when I see a Medical School professor make a veiled plea for a return to the quite recent days when the number of black doctors graduating from the nation's medical schools every year could be counted on the fingers of one hand; when I see that another Harvard professor who has publicly referred to the present tensions between the Third...
...responsibility," says a company spokesman. "We point out that they will be helping to ensure the company's future if they take a few hundred marks less." The company has not denied rumors that it might tighten up the rules of the employee-purchase fringe benefit if its plea is not heeded...
Harvard's Black Law Students Association (BALSA) has also sent a letter to Levi, making a similar plea for the federal government not to intervene...
Sprague sees this as Kafkaesque justice. More important, he looks upon it as a chance to fight against his pet outrage: slipshod standards in the criminal justice system. "I want to attack the plea bargaining in this case," he says angrily. "I want to make a mockery of what the state of New Jersey has done...
...find out just what is occurring around Palmdale, scientists are now installing additional tilt meters, seismometers, magnetometers and other instruments in the little-monitored bulge area. These efforts have so far been badly handicapped by a lack of funds, but President Gerald Ford, after a plea from USGS scientists, has authorized an additional $2.6 million for earthquake research in fiscal 1977-$2 million of it specifically for studying the bulge...