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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoddy performance" of the Ford administration and its lack of "concern for doing anything" influenced his support for Carter, Roger D. Fisher '43, professor of Law, said yesterday. The election offers a clear choice between "government that will do something or [one that will] just tread water," he said...

Author: By Joseph B. White and Brian L. Zimbler, S | Title: Faculty Straw Poll Indicates a Preference for Carter; Ford Criticized for Poor Leadership, Economic Policy | 10/29/1976 | See Source »

...Lockheed case was, indeed, a sensation, more so in Japan and Western Europe than in the United States. We do live in an interdependent world. But that is no reason to tread lightly in cleaning up the corrupt practices of multinational corporations. There is every indication that instead of incurring the animosity of other peoples, our investigation, disclosure and enactment of remedial legislation engendered admiration abroad. Japan, the Netherlands and others opened their own investigations based upon the initial disclosures of our subcommittee. The results have not been destructive, but regenerative, for nothing saps the confidence of people in their...

Author: By Frank Church, | Title: Lockheed: Corporation or Political Actor? | 10/26/1976 | See Source »

...check the route. They found nothing, and Tatom, now thoroughly concerned, called police. Not until 7:30 did a local pilot sight the bus, hidden in the slough. Police sped to the site and found the bus deserted; the only real clues were two extra sets of tire tread marks near by. Concern turned to alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Escape from an Earthen Cell | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...tags, and New York Times picture i.d.'s. A caste system was developing. It wasn't until I was standing in an endless line with the rest of the "special" press for my pass to the floor in the $6.50 bleacher section--where no self-respecting Knicks fan would tread for free--that I realized they wanted the college press to cover the event from the television...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: A Worm in the Garden | 7/20/1976 | See Source »

...that task, Gutman does not tread new ground. At least two schools of thought have developed theories of the origins of the American labor movement. At the beginning of this century John R. Commons led the Wisconsin school of labor history in creating a standard interpretational framework that, as Gutman says, even later-generation Marxists and New Left historians rarely questioned. To summarize and hopelessly simplify, Commons theorized that unions were economic institutions founded by workers in response to their loss of control over local markets due to rapid industrialization and specialization. Craftsmen's local markets and skilled laborers were...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: New History of an Old People | 7/6/1976 | See Source »

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