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...those interests" that defeated the ERA the first time. Lawsuits and boycotts, she says, will be used against insurance companies and other businesses that supposedly overcharge or otherwise exploit women. Also high on the NOW hit list are lawmakers and Governors who opposed the amendment. "Women are in a token position politically," she says. NOW will "not again seriously pursue the ERA until we've made a major dent in changing the composition of Congress as well as the state legislatures" to include more women and "men who are genuinely feminists." The women's movement, vows Smeal, will...
...made to a United Nations official in Beirut last week by Yasser Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Like Lebanese officials, Arafat was angered by the failure of UNIFIL, the 7,000-strong U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, to mount more than token resistance to the Israeli invasion. Declared a Western diplomat: null credibility was a bit weak before. Now it has suffered a real blow...
...generally consider it wrong to do so. Having evaluated the implications of University investment in South Africa Bok notes that he has not changed his position since the issue erupted at Harvard Indeed, he predicts that the Corporation--which he chairs--will never vote for divestiture. By the same token. his new book reveals his similarly careful examination of the touchy issues of technology transfer--an issue that erupted here two years ago when the University was considering making a substantial investment in a planned genetic engineering company to be headed by a Harvard professor. Thanks largely...
...tourist belt, and as he soon found, "salaries are stinko in central Florida." When he did get a job as a shop foreman for an engineering firm, he earned only $7,800. Roxie took to selling Tupperware and cut back expenses, but she could send the credit companies only token monthly payments...
...major role in the department. Marglin taught his few graduate and undergraduate courses but presented nothing to the masses in Economics 10 Prior to the arrival of Jeff Wolcowitz, the course head section leader. Ec 10 organizers had approached Marglin out of sheer courtesy to give a token radical lecture Marglin says of their offers. "I think the preferred time was January 17th, midnight...