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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the organizers of this spring's protest say they are relieved at the decision's postponement. If the recommendation "to demote the department" had been made in May, one student explains, "we would have had no energy to fight to save the department. We would have had our exams in front of us, and our plane tickets in our pockets...

Author: By Eileen M. Smith, | Title: Afro-American Studies: On the Threshold | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...large enough share of the stock of any single corporation. Nor would anyone pretend that a Harvard boycott of the Nestle Corporation would force Nestle to stop selling its deadly products to mothers in the Third World. It is not Harvard's moral obligation to end apartheid or save the people victimized by Nestle; it is Harvard's moral obligation to terminate its material support of the institutions that sustain those wrongs...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: A Matter of Conscience | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

Meanwhile Senator Jones, using intermediaries, was trying to work out a settlement with Hobby. In the end, the Lieutenant Governor gave in, agreeing to stop his parliamentary efforts to save the bill. The measure was then defeated. When the fugitives returned to the senate, they were cheered from the galleries, where some spectators had donned yellow-and-black Killer Bee T shirts and a few wore fake insect antennae on their heads. The senators then revealed that the hiding place that had flummoxed the police was right in Austin, just three miles from the red granite state capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Flight of the Killer Bees | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...current whether the machine is running fast or slow. This inefficiency and waste of energy by motors could soon be eliminated, according to Exxon Corp. Last week the world's largest oil company announced with much fanfare that it has developed a new electric energy technology that could save the U.S. the equivalent of 1 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Electric Exxon | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...killed in the House Commerce Committee by one vote. This time the President, Califano and Administration aides are lobbying intensively, something they failed to do in 1978, calling the bill "the litmus test" of whether a legislator is really serious about fighting inflation. The bill, Carter insists, would save the country "some $53 billion" over the next five years the amount by which he estimates medical costs would increase if no limits were enacted. The Congressional Budget Office is less optimistic; it pegs the likely savings at $31.7 billion. But adds one of the office's analysts: "That's still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Cost: What Limit? | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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