Word: supervisors
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...research supervisor, Richards Professor of Chemistry Martin Karplus, said yesterday the student had just finished "a very interesting study" on the properties of proteins. "He was doing very well," Karplus said...
Shortly after 8 a.m. last Friday, Dan White was freed from prison, having served five years of a seven-year eight-month sentence for killing San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay activist. At noon, 1,000 San Franciscans protested by marching noisily through the city's financial district, blowing whistles and shouting, "He got away with murder." Sister Boom-Boom, a transvestite dressed in a nun's wimple and veil and motorcycle leathers, told the crowd, "Dan White's got a new life sentence - and it's not going...
Partly, though, the belief that the unthinkable will remain unthinkable is a matter less of strategic judgment than of inherent optimism, or perhaps simply faith. Tom Allan, 36, is a program-control supervisor for Raytheon in Portsmouth, R.I. Much of Raytheon's work is military, but Allan refuses to believe that nuclear war is possible. "I think the people of the world will prevent it," he says, "the everyday people, the bulk of the populace of the world. I don't think anyone really wants to have a head-to-head confrontation that might result in something that...
Winter is not a season, it is an occupation," said City Maintenance Supervisor Mike Vazzano, who has spent the past 20 winters trying to keep the streets of Omaha clear of snow. He added meekly, "I really don't enjoy it that much." Last week Vazzano had real cause to complain: after 6 in. of snow, the temperature dropped to 24° below zero, a record for that day. That was only one of the 70 low-temperature records broken from Washington State to Illinois on Thursday, the first official day of winter, as an arctic front swept...
...Harvard an employee can talk with a supervisor, or with Ginn. or with a neutral officer in Central Personnel, or with the General Counsel's office (Ann Taylor's domain). If a worker is dissatisfied with the results she gets at these levels, she can appeal either to a formal hearing, held under the General Counsel's auspices, or to formal arbitration. A formal arbitration beard is composed of three judges--one chosen by the employee, one by the Dean of the Faculty, and one chosen from among experienced arbitrators in the graduate schools. If all else fails, as with...