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...them, summer supper does not mean a familial gathering around the groaning board, with Granny presiding over steaming tureens of garden-fresh vegetables. It means a quick take-out order from the local Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza Hut, with plenty of potato chips and soft drinks to stave off the pangs until Dad carts the meal home. The kitchen is where the wrappings are thrown away...
...America. The workers, who began their organizing drive in 1974, almost saw it disintegrate on all too many occasions. The University doggedly opposed District 65 every step of the way for two and a half years, and mustered every ounce of the formidable legal talent at its disposal to stave off the union in the halls of the NLRB. Despite Harvard's recalcitrance, despite the reluctance of regional director Robert Fuchs to hear the case, despite Fuchs's original ruling against the union, and despite the lengthy delay in the case's resolution by the Washington NLRB, the union prevailed...
...popular response to that question. The answer is a no so resounding that when it came, it was mistaken for a mortal war on science. So alarmed was Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences, that in 1972 he preached publicly on the urgent need to stave off the "crumbling of the scientific enterprise." Today, with that enterprise clearly waxing (federal funding for science this year: $24.7 billion, up 67% in eight years), Handler's excessive reaction may seem like that of a pampered sacred cow at the approach of a foot-and-mouth inspector. The fact...
...increase in the University's endowment last year from $1.32 to $1.42 billion will not stave off rising expenses, Kaufman said...
...revamped Harvard quintet that entered the Palestra, as Penn barely managed to stave off Harvard's second half surge...