Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead." Throughout his desolate farming village of Muratbagi last week, the toll of dead, mostly women and children who were still indoors after the men left to work in the fields, continued to mount. The earthquake killed more than half of the village's 980 inhabitants, reducing the settlement to a heap of lonely rocks on the hillside...
...career. She eventually complained to Henry Rosovsky, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, who found that the case had merit. Rosovsky wrote her a letter stating, "The repeated sexual advances and certain other deprecating actions constituted a serious abuse of authority." In an August out-of-court settlement, Harvard stripped Professor Jorge Dominguez of his committee powers but did not suspend him. The woman's contract was extended, although she is now doing research in Latin America...
Colleagues and administrators finally speculate that Bailyn would be reluctant to give up the life of a scholar and especially the freedom at forded him by his prestigious University Professorship, to take the post. Baylin's now actively engaged in research on population history and the settlement patterns of groups in this country...
...settlement came on Friday morning after a negotiating session Thursday night...
...workers had sought a 25-cent increase in their $2.01 hourly salary. Their new contract does not include a raise, and although the workers say they are happy with the settlement, they add that they plan to press for a wage hike when the contract expires in a year...