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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With approximately one-fourth of the class casting ballots, freshmen voted 238 to 154 with 61 abstentions to send representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), making the Class of '82 the third freshman class in a row to break an eight-year boycott of the committee...
...more pessimistic views is held by James Howell, chief economist and vice president of Boston's First National Bank. He thinks the economy has sufficient momentum to carry it to the beginning of the second quarter in 1979, but "then the country will have a tough row to hoe for the remainder of the year." Howell expects 2 million people to be added to the unemployment rolls, leading to a jobless rate of about 8% (compared with a high of 9.2% during the last recession). A. George Gols, an economist with Arthur D. Little, Inc., expects a recession that...
Proposed Arab studies center stirs up a campus row...
Soon after dawn, cleaning women used to stand in a row on Burnside Avenue in The Bronx, waiting for well-heeled Manhattan matrons to drive up and hire them for a day's work. "Often they'd ask to see your knees," recalls Geraldine Miller of those lineups in the '30s. "The women with the worst scarred knees were hired first because they looked like they worked the hardest." Their pay for an eight-hour day: 30? to 40?. Today their pay may be as much as $40 a day, and it is the employers who queue...
...could imagine that two Popes in a row could be installed and Camp David take place without benefit of coverage and comment from the New York Times? Those who have had to get their daily news mostly from TV missed a lot of valuable insights, but were spared much of the repetitious babble and striving for novelty that accompany big events They also missed some zero-sum punditry-someone must win, someone must lose-of the kind that refuses to believe Sadat and Begin could both intelligently weigh their advantages and conclude that agreement was in their mutual interest...