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...District 65 is far from won. Harvard should recognize the right of its workers to determine the union representation of their own choice. The battle has languished in the halls of the NLRB far too long; there is no guarantee of success for the union there. The University should relent in its opposition to the union, and should instead come to grips with what is already a de facto union in the Med area...
...year. He traveled, took high-priced civil cases and decorated his office with marbled burgundy wallpaper made from old English textbook bindings "to achieve the look of a barrister's office in Dickens' day." But the drives of 17 years of public life would not relent. "In some ways," he says of his cases, "I'm still a prosecutor." Albeit without such perks of office as his enormous public visibility and his black Chrysler complete with telephone, two-way radio and police siren...
...district offices loyal to church headquarters. At that point, some sort of new moderate church will begin to emerge. One synod spokesman estimates that fewer than 200 of the church's 5,846 congregations would join the exiles. But a moderate tactician claims that if Preus does not relent, 600 to 800 congregations will be in rebellion by the end of the summer, with more likely to leave later on. If this happens, it will be one of the biggest U.S. church schisms in decades...
...freezing cold outside Mass hall--"We're a separate unit, so let's get to it!"--Daniel Steiner, the University's general counsel, sits inside coordinating Harvard's predictably airtight legal defense. As workmen paste up a billboard near the Medical Area calling on President Bok to relent, Thomas L.P. O'Donnell, a Ropes and Gray labor lawyer whom Ed Powers, director of employee relations, calls "one of the best in the business" is drafting briefs that will certainly give District 65 a run for its money...
...included the $28 million in the $2.2 billion contract price and demanded that the price of the 80 planes be reduced by that much, as a kind of fine. Grumman, arguing that the money came out of its own pockets, is now desperately trying to persuade the Shah to relent...