Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week an administrative law judge upheld the election victory. The decision found that the union did not coerce employees. The University could show no evidence that it did during testimony this summer. In fact, even if HUCTW did what Harvard challenged--keeping track of pro-union voters--it would not have violated election rules. Judge Joel Harmatz harshly condemned Harvard for taking action that "transcends what might lightly be dismissed as an aggressive adversarial approach...
...Last summer's drought has produced not only a stunted harvest but also a toxic side effect: a bumper crop of aflatoxin, a fungus-based, cancer-causing corn contaminant. It has turned up in livestock feed corn (although not the sweet corn so dear to the American palate) in nine major corn-producing states. The Illinois Department of Agriculture says a third of the crop samples tested show aflatoxin above permissible levels. But by blending the current crop with grain from uncontaminated past harvests, the corn can be used. Moreover, the Food and Drug Administration has cleared...
...Barnett did not believe his own data. "I thought it was an error in the computer code," says the climate researcher at California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. For one thing, the little-known phenomenon his model was predicting had not been witnessed since the mid- 1970s. By last summer, however, Barnett's forecast was borne out by a "monstrous" 7 degreesF plunge in ocean surface temperatures off * equatorial South America. The drop heralded the arrival of a mysterious weather pattern called La Nina, which brings unusually cold temperatures to the eastern Pacific. La Nina has since swept...
Freshmen present said that meeting alumni would be helpful to them in the long run. "Meeting alumni may help with getting a summer job or something," explained Kathleen Ho '92, from Springfield...
...union called Harvard's appeal an anti-union tactic, accusing them of using the delay to take advantage of summer employee turnover--which is near 40 percent--to weaken the union. If Harvard had won its appeal the vote would have been retaken...