Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the pressure of monthly deadlines. Estella says that she doesn't really depend on work to the extent "that I fear that if anything went wrong I wouldn't be able to find anything. But I really do like working," she pauses, "at the machines." She will not sign up with District...
...will have to destroy what she says are the "myths" workers hold about a closed shop: time clocks, stricter relationships. But, she adds, "you don't invent reasons for people to join the union--the reasons are there and they're good ones." The process of convincing employees to sign up is, by Joannidi's description, an almost Marxist discovery of alienated self: "The turning point is when, from frustration from your work, you transform this feeling into a more positive feeling of, 'when we get together, we don't need to compete or mistrust each other...
...signs point to a continued idyllic relationship between Harvard and Iran. But there is no sign that the Iranian system of education has "opened up" at all despite Harvard's presence for more than a year. Iran is, and will continue to be, a closed and repressive totalitarian state. There is no evidence that the proposed facility will be founded on education principles any "higher" than those already observed in the state-dominated educational system. The presence of Edward L. Keenan Jr., professor of History, and a select minority of American educators on the governing board will make state meddling...
Others said they find it a threat. One businessman who was watching the world go by in the Square yesterday said he suspects that there are "bigger men" than Cohen involved in putting the sign up, trying to create a "New York atmosphere" in Cambridge...
...petition states that the students who sign it "deplore the trend in education at Harvard toward denigrating the quality of education in favor of keeping up 'standards' in a purely formal, rigid sense, which leads to increased competition and overemphasis on grades...