Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience, however, does not get a humorous look at a silly, petty outsider but dwells within the mind of a man tortured by his own lowly position within the inflexible class lines of Russian society and accompanies him on his gradual descent into a hell of madness and self-torment...
Throughout its campaign to organize Harvard's 4000 support staff, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) has focused on employee self-representation, instead of organizing around specific economic complaints. Union leaders say the particular issues pale in comparison with the broader quest for worker empowerment...
...respondents were permitted to list more than one issue, so the total is higher than 100 percent) Self-representation 95 percent Better medical benefits 90 percent Improved pensions 86 percent Improved child care 88 percent Pay equity 59 percent --between different campus areas 37 percent --between women and men 23 percent To take more than one Harvard course 26 percent
Such numbers provide reassuring proof that not all Harvard students are the self-centered, pre-professional yuppies Allan Bloom and William J. Bennett would like us to think. By funding 51 public service programs, PBH ensures that undergraduates will not isolate themselves behind the Yard's ivy walls but instead spread Harvard's resources in the community. The 94-year-old organization plays an important role in the lives of the underprivileged in Boston and Cambridge--operating programs such as summer camps, tutoring and free legal help for the poor...
...South gave the Republicans George Bush, and now the GOP has five months to find someone willing to run with him. At this early stage, Time, in a fit of self-restraint, threw out half a dozen possibilities in a mini-story this week...