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Into this touchy scenario, in the past ten years, have walked a number of hospital unions, most notably local sections of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a subdivision of the AFL-CIO. The SEIU today boasts some half a million members; hospital workers comprise about 200,000 of that number. The union has made its major advances in cities like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, organizing in major hospitals. But until about five years ago the union did no organizing in Boston--a city with a rather conspicuous concentration of hospitals. It wasn't until...
...happened during the years of protest against the war. Rowan gave shelter to three young activists who bombed a building on a Midwest campus, and when troopers surrounded his Pennsylvania farmhouse, gunfire erupted, leading to the death of one of the youths, as well as an FBI agent. That scenario seems possible--especially because such a bombing did actually occur on a Midwest campus, in 1970. An explosion at the University of Wisconsin that year destroyed part of a building and killed one person...
...doubled to 1.6 billion; by 1964, it had doubled again to 3.2 billion; and by the end of the century, it is projected to double again to about 6.3 billion. Given today's level of complacency in some quarters, and dis couragement in others, the likely scenario is for a world stabilized at about 11 billion...
...available. Another possible ruling-and one that could result in Allan Bakke's admission, at 38, to the freshman medical class at Davis next fall-would hold that racial quotas are not permissible, but that universities may use race as one factor in future admissions policy. That scenario was suggested from the bench by Justice Powell...
Blum used this outlandish scenario to illustrate the legal implications of Arab denial of Israeli sovereignty over what the United Nations defined as Palestine at the time of its abortive partition plan...