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Harvard kicked a hornet's nest in early summer when it announced its intention to remove a large apartment building at 122 Mt. Auburn St. from the rental housing market. The move--which will require city approval--came in the midst of protracted legal battles over the building. Tenants fear...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: While You Were Gone ... | 9/23/1981 | See Source »

On the other hand, it is clear that the economy, as well as businesses by the tens of thousands, would suffer jolts aplenty if protracted and real chaos wrecked the smooth functioning of commercial aviation throughout the U.S. Says Robert Joedicke, an airlines industry expert with New York City'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economic Perils of Chaos Aloft | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

As these larger numbers of women gain the experience and publishing records the University expects of its tenured faculty, administrators say, more and more women will recieve tenure. Still, administrators like Nancy Randolph, special assistant to the president for affirmative action, caution that the process of assimilating women into tenured...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Slow Motion On a Tenure Track | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

All of these problems are reflected, some more bitterly than others, in the current election campaign, which will culminate in a vote for a new Knesset-and with it a new government. The shifting public opinion as the campaign built up was itself a significant measure of national uncertainty about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Troubled Land of Zion | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

Even if those tactics work, however, the outlook is for a protracted struggle from which it is difficult to see the Administration emerging with any great gains. However the vote goes, relations will be strained between Israel and an American Administration it had hoped to get along with. On the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying into Trouble | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

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