Word: rep
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...major alternatives, State Rep. Melvin H. King advocates the progressive policies that Boston needs in the 1980s. King supports public housing cooperatives, opposes vacancy decontrol and has a realistic and humane grasp of the city's crime and health problems. King is not garden variety Boston mayoral candidate; he is not white, he is not Irish and he does not descend from an unbroken line of Boston pols. If Boston voters are looking for a creative, forward-looking mayor, King is a logical choice...
Dean Bowersock has said that the proposed changes in Advanced Standing will not be brought to the faculty until CUE has reached a consensus regarding them. The issue is on the agenda for CUE's next meeting. Your ERG reps would like you to know both sides of the issue, and are anxious to hear student opinions. Steve Gold '80 [or '81] ERG rep, Quincy House
...scrape away all the rhetoric, however, the bill boils down to what Rep. John Erlenborn (R-Ill.) calls "a political payoff in every sense of the word." By all rights, both the House and Senate versions should have followed the path of their numerous successors, slowly fading into oblivion while a committee decided it had more important things to do. But back in 1976, Jimmy Carter discovered the National Education Association--an uncommitteed and potentially powerful block of votes. So Carter promised the NEA a department of its very own and the NEA gave Carter its first endorsment...
...accidental misuse or disposal of the thousands of toxic substances manufactured in the U.S." The answer, then, is to create incentives within industry, and so to encourage industry to regulate itself. This answer has been proposed in a bill coming up in the House of Representatives. Sponsored by Rep. George Miller (D-Cal.), H.R. 4973 imposes a minimum of two years in jail and a fine of $50,000 on corporate executives who are aware that a product or business practice poses "a serious danger" to the public, but who fail to warn the government or warn affected employees. This...
...House it met considerable opposition and was defeated despite the editorial backing of the New York Times and Washington Post, and unrelenting pressure from Kennedy and the White House. The generally conservative members of the House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice were persuaded by their liberal colleague, Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman '62, to block Kennedy's bill due to "exceptionally broad and sloppy language" and the many potential dangers posed to civil liberties and the First Amendment." (See Hentoff in the Village Voice, 11/27/78...