Word: strike
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...think the kids were really gaining something and developing as people, we wouldn't be coaching. If it still sounds too serious to you, look at the bright side: At least the players haven't formed a union. Rest assured that when they do, and they go on strike, Joe and I will stand united with Sparky Anderson in refusing to coach. Replacements just won't cut it. These kids are irreplaceable...
Last week, teaching assistants in the humanities and social sciences informed the Yale administration that if they do not receive recognition as a union, they will go on strike the week of April 3. These graduate students constitute a large group with an important place in Yale College life, and they need to be recognized as such. The Yale administration should grant union representation to the members of the Yale Graduate Employee and Student Organization (GESO), whose members include a majority of the roughly 1100 humanities and social science graduate students...
Even as baseball players continue to strike, bullish owners are plotting to put new teams on the field in Phoenix and Tampa Bay by 1998. Owners tomorrow will decide whether to add the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Arizona Diamondbacks to the major league roster. Phoenix Mayor Skip Rimsza told TIME Daily the strike has not dampened the excitement in his city. "It's not over till it's over," said Rimsza. Back on the picket line, the National Labor Relations Board tomorrow is expected to validate an unfair labor practice charge filed by the players...
This doesn't strike me as an issue over which Harvard professors should stumble. The Historical Studies segment of the core is currently divided into an A category, which focuses on "major issues of the contemporary world," and a B category, which presents "the documented details of some transforming event or group of events," according to the Courses of Instruction. Granted, 10a and 10b don't fit neatly into either category, but it wouldn't upset any great cosmic order to add these two classes to the A category, the broader of the two. It is the reluctance...
East Cambridge leaders say they are attempting to strike a balance between growth--which they predict will spread throughout the old neighborhood if left unchecked--and the preservation of long standing community bonds...