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However, even the intensity of this controversy has failed to provoke much interest in Boston as is evidenced by its poor treatment in the Boston papers (for example the debate controversy only made page 28 in Thursday's Boston Globe). But why should it stir interest? A recent poll conducted by the Globe showed that White is leading Hicks 52-25 per cent; and although the poll also suggested that a majority of the remaining uncommitted 23 per cent may go to Hicks, White still has a decisive lead...
...chief danger is that the program will give an appearance of inequity. If it works, pay increases will be limited, but corporate profits will not be. Indeed, profits are expected to rise smartly next year as sales increase and companies' labor costs are held down. That could stir enough resentment among men and women on the production lines to touch off labor turmoil later on. Moreover, the new Pay Board will ultimately have to set maximum limits by which wages and salaries will go up. The maximums will tend to become minimums. Most executives or workers will expect...
...Diego, the program has been remarkably successful. Of the 47 prisoner alumni accepted, only two have violated parole and been sent back to stir. The makes a 4.3% rate of recidivism, compared with 30.4% for the corrections system statewide. "We take the whole range of offenses," says Dr. Melvin Murphy of San Diego's School of Social Work. "But we have the most trouble with drug addicts. Give me a good murderer any time." Murphy has just received a $212,000 Federal grant to study the effectiveness of the program...
...this country?and even more in Western Europe?who are not ready to admit that a non-Western country can be one of the leading or perhaps most successful of the modern nations. If that kind of racist reaction does come from the West, then we will certainly stir up a nationalist response...
...from a mediocre but interesting ball club to a bad but uninteresting one (they are currently 33 games out of first place in the league's Eastern Division), home attendance dropped from 824,789 last year to 631,933 so far this season. Short did nothing to help stir fan interest when he greatly increased ticket prices to a top of $6, the highest in the league...