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Harvard has asked the secretary of Labor to postpone for a year the effective date of some of the provisions of a 1974 pension act. Personnel Office spokesmen said yesterday...
...Thatcher shares Heath's relatively humble background-the one the daughter of a Lincolnshire grocer, the other the son of a Kentish carpenter. Both have been characterized as being almost frostily reserved and unassailably self-confident. Both owe their political rise to impressive performances as Tory spokesmen on financial affairs, Thatcher in the past few months, Heath in the early '60s. The difference, however-and some fear that it may prove to be a disastrous one for the Tories in the next general election-is that her outlook is several degrees to the right of Heath...
...testimony of his eyewitness with the testimony that the fetus breathed. He never took a position on whether or not the fetus was alive when it left the womb--or more accurately, he maintained both positions, Hedging his bets, he argued for a new definition of birth. Anti-abortion spokesmen testified that a child was born--without ever leaving womb--the moment the placenta was detached from the uterine wall, forcing the fetus to "to on its own systems...
...part Monsanto is insisting that it has little or no idea what will come out of the research it is financing here, except that the chances of its producing anything at all are, its spokesmen say, "about 5 per cent." But that kind of public stance seems naive or deceptive coming from a multinational corporation with $3.5 billion in annual sales. A company like Monsanto doesn't invest up to $2.3 million unless it has some expectation of making a profit...
While the Corporation's approval of the plan on Monday represented the largest dollar-for-dollar fee increase in University history, spokesmen for Dean Rosovsky's office--which worked out and presented the proposal--looked on it as little more than a holding action designed to keep the Faculty's deficit constant as operating costs continue to rise...