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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nine to Five, a non-profit organization for working women which initiated the investigation, had charged that BSG's "wage collusion" has an adverse effect on wages in Boston...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Settlement on Wage Surveys Won't Affect Harvard Practices | 9/23/1982 | See Source »

Western Electric, a subsidiary of AT&T, runs Sandia, which is one of the oldest facilities in the government's nuclear arms program. Built in 1945 as part of the Manhattan Project and operated by the University of California, the lab has been managed on a non-profit basis by the Bell System since 1949. Harvard owns about $20 million in AT&T stock...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Making Bombs With Harvard's Bucks | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...funds, and took care of the offsetting. The alumni group held a dinner last year for graduating gay students and their parents and have two fundraisers scheduled for this year, Wall says, adding that he thinks alumni contributions may reach $50,000 this year when the group obtains non-profit status...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen and Errol T. Louis, S | Title: Minority Groups Now Use Subtler Tactics | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...Weld Hall suite. The Weld Penthouse Shaving Society was founded on the premise that some female students were "too lazy" to take care of the job themselves, and it was apparently well-received by amused Weld women. One shaver said that he and his associates had provided their non-profit service to at least 20 customers...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

Your article falsely states that ranchers are dependent on federal land because private land is overgrazed. The reason for the dependency is the patchwork nature of real estate ownership in the West. Ranchers need the public areas to tie the scattered tracts of private land together. There is no profit in overgrazing. If a steer has to walk 100 yds. to get a mouthful, he isn't going to get fat. My family has been on the same ranch for 93 years. If we had abused the land, we would have had to move long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 13, 1982 | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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