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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University doesn't want to suffer the indignity of dealing physically with an audience. Harvard officials are reluctant to admit that anyone would want to protest physically. They would like all protest in writing and obviously cannot grapple with protest that goes beyond the scope of academia into the realm of heated emotion...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Free Speech Paradox | 10/7/1987 | See Source »

...permitted until those goals were attained, including new U.S. investments in South Africa and the importation of that country's agricultural products, coal, iron, uranium, textiles and military equipment. The clear intent was to give Pretoria a choice: either make major changes in a repugnant social policy or suffer painful economic consequences for not doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Ignoring Both Carrot and Stick | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...then, has Biden become a modern-day Jean Valjean, condemned to suffer permanently for the political equivalent of stealing a loaf of bread? Biden is more than a hapless victim, since his Gatling-gun rhetoric certainly compounded the problem. Still, the Biden brouhaha illustrates the six deadly requirements for a crippling political scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden's Familiar Quotations | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Nowhere is danger more obvious than in the meat-packing industry, which will be the focus this week of congressional hearings on its safety practices. AFL- CIO officials estimate that more than one-third of the nation's 175,000 packinghouse workers -- 160 victims each day -- will suffer a serious injury or illness this year. Because meat-packing employees must work swiftly with sharp knives and cleavers, severe cuts and fractures are common. So is carpal- tunnel syndrome, a painful wrist condition caused by a repetitive chopping motion that swells tendons, pinches nerves and sometimes requires corrective surgery. Many workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood, Sweat And Fears | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Graduates Suffer From Stereotype...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Cuts | 9/26/1987 | See Source »

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