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STATE AND LOCAL legislators occasionally like to take pot shots at Harvard and its tax free status. Over the years the University's relationship with the Cambridge City Council has been lukewarm at best, and often downright cold. State lawmakers from the western part of Massachusetts resent Harvard's big-time stature, and welcome any opportunity to test the University's influence...
...Ronald Ziegler said that Nixon still had "absolute and total confidence" in Dean and that Dean had no prior knowledge of Watergate. (But Gerald Ford, Republican House leader, declared: "If Dean is clean, I see no reason why he shouldn't testify.") John Mitchell* said that "I deeply resent the slanderous and false statements about me," and reaffirmed earlier denials of any advance knowledge of the Watergate affair. Colson termed McCord's mention of him "a goddamned lie." Magruder stood by his earlier denials, and Haldeman was covered by the Nixon announcement last August that "no one presently...
Most workers are paid by the piece, but sample workers, cutters, dividers, inspectors and a few others are paid by the hour. Piece workers resent the less pressured pace and casual attitude of those on time. "You can always tell if you see someone working at lunch--she's a piece worker." A piece worker is free to leave when she wishes. (Often there isn't enough work available.) The catch is that at 2/9 cents a piece, she must work at a terrific rate to earn a decent day's wage. Said one woman. "Piece work makes us like...
...state legislature is not likely to help either. It is dominated by rural and suburban interests who resent contributing taxes to Detroit's schools, particularly when its school tax rate is less than half that of some suburbs and far below the state average of 26 mills. Snaps Democrat William Copeland of suburban Wyandotte: "I don't see how you can expect me to tax my people for Detroit when they are already paying their fair share for the schools, and Detroit is only paying 15 mills...
Some deacons complain that parish priests see them as "unpaid janitors." Some priests, for their part, resent the fact that a few deacons wear the Roman collar, a practice that local diaconate program directors would like to stop. More important, there is increasing pressure from women to be ordained as deacons, as they are in the Episcopal Church.* Though there are no theological obstacles to such a move-indeed, there seems to be precedent for it among early Christians-Rome is likely to yield only slowly to the concept...