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...have women and minorities here who are kept down and subsequently underpaid" because of the job classification system, Dickess said...
...might not be healthy for academe. As universities, like professional-sports owners, become caught up in bidding for a few known stars, they may stint on finding creative ways to build a team. Cornell's Palmer worries about developing a two-tier system of gold-plated prima donnas and underpaid working stiffs. Furthermore, says Mario T. Garcia, chairman of Chicano studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, "one campus gains at the expense of another." This is what disturbs N.Y.U.'s Rice, as he ponders the consequences of too much raiding. "It terrifies me out of my wits...
Aquino's mean-momma posture is unlikely to produce results unless she gets some help. Unfortunately, she must still rely on a corrupt, underpaid and dispirited bureaucracy to carry out her plans and a bankrupt treasury to finance them. She has to go to a bickering Congress for approval of major initiatives. But Aquino now realizes she will have to work hard to keep the popularity that has buoyed her through the travails of the past 19 months. Said the President bitterly last week: "The honeymoon is over, isn't it? But I am not sorry. The sooner...
This enthusiasm proves an absolute godsend to back bench Members of Parliament who receive but meager salaries on which they usually manage to mantain one devoted and underpaid secretary. To such MPs crowds of keen and reasonably intelligent free research assistants are manna from heaven. With the aid of one to three such assistants the beleagured MP may now indulge in as much work as he feels suitable or necessary...
During the strike, Cornell President Frank T. Rhodes said although Cornell service and maintenance workers may be underpaid, the university is paying them as much as it can afford...