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At Stanford, the graduate students' most recent run-in with the administration took place 15 years ago. Graduate school research assistants (R.A.'s), frustrated with low salariesand long hours, staged a walk-out and refused to resume work. The university took legal action against the R.A.'s, forcing them to...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: All Quiet on the Ivy Front: Keeping Students Happy | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

In Room 212 at the A.M.A. center the assertiveness class is already under way. Our first volunteer is Karen, a 29-year-old specialist in inventory control, who is still trembling from a run-in with her boss, C.E. Ogre. In a role-playing session with her classmates, she relives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Seminars Everywhere | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Barron thinks "the left" has just discovered federalism. Wrong. Black Panthers and ERAP ghetto organizers in the 1960s fought for the development and protection of local communities and values. And the federal government isn't always progressive: Barron should check his history texts for the details of a small run...

Author: By Doug Rossinow, | Title: Re-Examining States' Rights | 8/14/1987 | See Source »

As fertilizer suffocated the Yard last week, its freshman residents were experiencing a run-in of their own in Harvard's procedural wasteland: the computer test of the quantitative reasoning requirement.

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Crazy Computing | 4/19/1986 | See Source »

ONE OUT OF EVERY TWO Americans will have a run-in with a drunk driver in his or her lifetime.

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Time to Get Mad | 9/24/1982 | See Source »

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