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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sides resumed informal talks yesterday but at a subcommittee level. No progress in disagreements over wage levels, contracting out of work to non-union or overseas companies and new job classifications that the companuy wants was reported by either...
...Kennedy established the Peace Corps, the Alliance for Progress, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), programs which "captured a notion of idealism," says says Daniel J. Givelber '61, now the dean ofNortheastern Law School. At the same time thesegroups provided "a constructive way" to deal withworld problems, says Bloom, who worked in Africafor 20 years for USAID and now heads itsAfrican-Asian division...
...part of the sesquicentennial, a wagon train has slowly been making its way around the state--some 40 mule-drawn and horse-drawn wagons escorted by horsemen. Its 3,000-mile progress, traversing a hugely diverse geography, dramatizes the complexity of Texas. The state cannot be contained in one image: the cowboy, or the oilman, say. Geographically, climatically, economically, sociologically, Texas is at least five different entities: 1) east Texas, with its piney woods and swamps and large black population, a territory like the Old South; 2) south Texas, with its enormous Hispanic population, a borderland as much Mexican...
...their leader, not as they did in the past. When we have freedom of speech, freedom of the press, free unions and a real civil service, we will hold elections, starting with sheriff. If the base is not solid, you cannot build on it." His philosophy of slow, sure progress in restoring Haiti's institutions may not be a crowd pleaser, but if consistently and fairly applied, it may be just the medicine that the ailing country needs...
...even businesses that would carry a larger burden under the committee's plan may be reluctant to make a fuss if it means holding up the bill's progress. The drawn-out process of tax reform, with all its uncertainty, has started to vex corporate leaders because it impedes them from making strategic plans. Complains Stephen Sinclair, president of Rubloff Financial Services in Chicago: "This has been going on since 1984. If they would just make up their minds and tell us what the tax law is going to be, we could go on and do our business." That prospect...