Word: stewarding
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...McCombe claims his punishment was actuallyretaliation for having defended the securityguards complaining about racial discrimination,two years earlier. At that time, McCombe wasserving as a steward for the guards' union. Hiscomplaint against the University is still pending
...CRISIS: "You can't be older than your ma," quips Christopher Impey of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. Sounds obvious, maybe, but if Freedman and her colleagues are right about their space-telescope observations, it would seem that the universe hasn't caught on to this bit of common sense. The most straightforward interpretation of their data implies that the cosmos is 12 billion years old, max. But experts insist that the oldest stars in the Milky Way have been around for at least 14 billion years. "They could quite easily be several billion years older than that...
When he was a union steward three years ago,McCombe represented several security employees whocharged their department's administration--whichis ultimately responsible to the Office of GeneralCounsel--with discrimination...
Fogg Art Museum. Through April 2. "Chasing Shadows: Photographs from the Collection." The concept for the show is embedded in its title: It speaks to the unique qualities of photographic processes, to the history of the medium and to the history of the collection under the steward-ship of the late Davis Pratt...
Eisenach describes himself as Gingrich's ``intellectual sidekick,'' but he insists the foundation is wholly independent of Gingrich as well as organizations like GOPAC. That defense is less than satisfying to critics. Before founding Progress and Freedom, Eisenach was executive director of GOPAC. His think tank, furthermore, is steward to ``Renewing American Civilization,'' the 20-hour college course that Gingrich teaches. Eisenach, however, denies that he remains beholden to partisan zealots at GOPAC. ``The clique that feeds at the trough of Republican politics is not my crowd,'' he told . ``I survived at GOPAC by telling them I'd leave them...