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...would he unfortunate if every problem with the current grievance procedure was solved only through trial and error. The current procedure lacks several basic elements. There is no appeals process. There is no timetable given for investigation and resolution of the matter (thus the University could stall beyond 180 days, the limit set by the Office of Civil Rights for the filing of a sexual harassment complaint). There is no clause regarding the rights of both the harassed and the accused to solicit support from friends or advisors throughout the process. Finally, there is no provision regarding the resolution...
...mean-looking as the Hell's Angels but not as well groomed, the Brewers are a happy gang. "Have some fun," Harvey Kuenn told them in June when he moved his stuff from a coach's stall to the manager's office. They did. Kuenn has a wooden leg and a bad heart, and he squints a bit from the time he tried to catch a home run and his eye got hooked up on a centerfield fence. The fences never were able to contain his effort, or his team...
Though this new optimism has buoyed businessmen and excited the stock market, TIME's Board of Economists warned last week that the progress on interest rates will probably soon stall. The board predicted that the prime will bottom out at 12% by the middle of next year and then begin to rise again...
...NUCLEAR WAR would kill millions of Americans and ravage the country for those who survived it. It would stall industrial production and it would destroy jobs. Consequently, few politicians support...
...made some improvements. The literacy rate has risen from 50% to 87%. Thousands of campesinos have received title to confiscated farm land. But an increasing number of Nicaraguans are beginning to compare the Sandinistas to Somoza. Says a plump, fortyish food vendor, standing in her tin-and plastic-sided stall in Managua's Mercado Oriental: "This is the worst we have ever had it. Everyone is waiting for Edén Pastora." They may have to wait a while. But the spreading disillusionment should put the Sandinistas on notice that political legitimacy does not come from just overthrowing...