Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elegance and grace are still there in the wide, tree-lined boulevards and the colonial-era buildings, but the place is badly in need of some paint, some renewal, some energy. The city is calm, quiet and green, but also poor, drab and dull. Whatever improvement in living standard there has been, if any, has not been dramatic. At night, Hanoi reverts to a kind of overgrown country village. Except for an occasional bicycle or a strolling policeman or two, there is virtually nobody on the silent, dark and lifeless streets...
Meany and his allies have followed parochial policies that turn off potential labor supporters. The AFL-CIO's dead-end support of the Viet Nam War is the standard example, but there are others. The union movement has lost touch with many rising forces in U.S. society. Feminists and civil rights leaders worry that seniority rules hinder the promotion of women and blacks; consumerists and ecologists find unions ranged against them out of fear that consumer-protection and environmental laws will cost workers jobs. Columbia University Industrial Relations Professor James Kuhn believes that to regain power, "labor needs the imagination...
Street or the latest Government goof are laced with vinegar and lightened with pixie dust. "I follow the Mencken rule of never saying anything good about a sitting President," he laughs. His standard advice to worriers: "It's just your money, not your life." Rukeyser is addicted to puns and one-liners (sample: "One more week like this and we'll have to call this program Wall Street Wake...
...Faculty's timetable for implementatioin of the Core calls for the committee to begin offering the first Core courses in the fall of 1979. From then on the number of Core coureses will increase as standard Gen Ed offerings decrease in number, or are incorporated into the Core program. By the time the Class of '82 are seniors, they will have very few Gen Ed holdovers from which to choose; this menas that they must choose carefully when to take the courses that will fulfill the Gen Ed requirements, as the same offerings may not be around for long...
...dinning halls, not to mention out of trouble with the police. A handy tool, and it'll cost you ten bucks if you lost it. Also at this meeting, you proctor will introduce you to everyone else in your dorm or entryway. And he'll give you the standard rap on drugs and sex. And there will be free beer. 10:00 p.m. Party...