Word: successful
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...things I'd like to do." Faculty members urge parents to take a hands-off attitude. "You must be supportive but not too directive," Arts and Sciences Dean Kenneth Clark told one assembly. "It's the student who's got to earn the grade and live with success or failure...
...wages generally still exceed those in comparable nonunion jobs?by 16%, at last count in 1975?and are rising faster. But GM, for example, has increased pay in its Southern plants to parity with what U.A.W. members get in the North. Unions, ironically, have been victimized by their own success in making company-paid pensions, medical insurance, longer vacations and similar fringes universal. Even the sons and daughters of diehard unionists feel they have no need to sign a union card in order to enjoy high pay, generous benefits and pleasant working conditions at big, high-technology firms like...
...scenes politicking for more than a year. Polls showed that a majority of undergraduates opposed the Core, but student members of the Committee of Undergraduate Education--an advisory group--approved the plan. When the dust settled, Rosovsky had won the argument decisively--by staking his considerable prestige on the success of the plan, and by expertly compromising on nuts-and-bolts details with professors anxious to see their own specialites included in the required curriculum, the dean won a 182-65 victory...
Harvard's financial involvement in South Africa is not a new issue, but this year was the first in which a core of students opposed to Harvard's investment policy were able to find popular support among their usually passive peers. The reason for that success lies, for the most part, in the ability of the groups fighting the investment policy tos trengthen their organizing efforts. They were able to elevate the South Africa question -- whichis hardly a major concern in America outside certaihn Congressional hearings and some universities -- to the level of a major issue at Harvard...
...factor in the success of the groups' organizing efforts this spring was the pooling of their efforts in the United Front -- in which the six organizations presented a united opposition to the University's investment policies handed down in April. It is as yet unclear how the organizations will work together this year -- and that may prove an important factor in determining the success of their activities. Most students in the groups, confident from the high turn-outs in the demonstrations last spring, believe they will be able to keep up the momentum for change. Some even express hope that...