Word: rightnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they agreed on nothing else at last night's debate at Boston University, the five men who want to replace Boston Mayor Kevin H. White all said that White isn't doing the right thing...
...campaign this fall, its members emphasize, will be a canvassing drive for a city referendum calling on Cambridge to divest of its holding in banks operating in South Africa. Committee members will encourage students to register for the vote this week and will canvass on behalf of the referendum right up until the local elections in November. If Cambridge approves the referendum, it will join Berkeley, Cal., which voted last spring to divest of its holdings in banks loaning to South Africa...
Nations may just be right. Harvard does offer a benefits package that includes three health care plans and entire infirmary, a credit union, a tuition assistance program and six child-care centers. It also provides full athletic facilities and more than three weeks' annual vacation. As one fo the state's largest employers, it can afford such little amenities...
...started innocuously enough. The New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG) included in its 1978 legislative agenda--right beside its diatribes on funeral costs and sugar content--the promise to work for a "truth in testing" bill, because "students and others whose careers are depending on the results of machine-correctable examinations have a right to know the significance of these tests...
...predicting exactly what will happen to the testing industry once the exams are disclosed. "Our basic thesis is that since the tests play such an important role in determining what colleges, professional schools, and professions people end up in, we all have a right to know what the exams mean," Ed Hanley, a Nader employee who lobbied for the truth-in-testing bill in Albany last year, says. Obviously, though, the right-to-know issue wouldn't be vital unless there was some hint the tests weren't worthwhile. "This will enable us to resolve once...