Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is especially good about this picture is that awareness of its main theme -the chancy, mysterious, unfair workings of mortality-is present, as it should be in the calculations of any healthy individual, but it appears as neither obsession nor nasty surprise. As Deerfield comes to realize, it is just part of life, something we must learn to accept, as some of us must learn to accept such happier but equally haphazard gifts-a brief romance, a sweet spring day. The comparison here must be to Love Story, in which mortality was dragged onstage-like Lord Olivier making...
...force were excluded from the bargaining unit, Harvard could eventually transfer more and more of the officers into it, leaving the Police Association a memberless shell. The question, Letteri says, will probably have to be decided through mediation. He will not, however, rule out the possibility of filing an unfair labor practice charge against the University, for allegedly failing to comply with the seniority provisions of previous contracts. At the same time, Powers implies Letteri and the union might also be guilty of an unfair practice, for allegedly backing out of the supposed task force settlement last spring. Whoever...
...compromise is only slightly more liberal than the original; to paraphrase President Carter, it suggests life is mostly unfair, instead of completely unfair. By restricting these payments Congress effectively takes two stands on nontherapeutic abortion: rich women are entitled to the privilege, but poor women--who will have a much harder time supporting unwanted children-- are not. A third of the 261,000 abortions Medicaid paid for last year were performed on poor minority women; a third were performed on girls under 15. It is possible that this compromise is the best the Senate can push through. It would...
...they will stand a much better chance if the federal labor relations statutes now on the books are changed. Congress is now beginning to consider a series of Carter administration proposals to amend the National Labor Relations Act, making it more difficult for employers such as Harvard to take unfair advantage of their wealth and size to prevent unionization. By speeding up the process by which workers may gain the right to hold organizing elections and by placing limits on the extent to which employers may use dubious legal tactics to avoid bargaining with certified unions, the bill would generally...
Clem said the BHC is "unfair to Cambridge citizens who believe the committee is meeting," and also inhibits scientists who want to cooperate with Cambridge laws...