Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) was formed to cap an 18-year experiment in which the University's academic prestige was combined with the Institute's resources. The result marks the union of two of the country's oldest astronomical observatories...
...annual Take Back the Night week at Harvard can be a union of women against violence, a symbolic show of support for every person's right to control his or her own body or a call for awareness of sexual assault...
...born Joel Rothstein and is married to a woman named Wolfson: "Rothstein-Wolfson is four syllables and 16 letters. Names get massacred enough. Wolfson becomes Wilson. Rothstein becomes Rothson. You can imagine what people would have done with the two together." But could they come up with a workable union of surnames without resorting to hyphens? "It was important for our kid's last name to be the same as ours," says the lawyer. "Otherwise, one parent gets left out." The solution: Rothstein gave up his last name and took his wife's. Joel is now a Wolfson, just like...
...inch the Designated Hero. Frank Lorenzo, the embattled chairman of Texas Air, had just announced that an investor group headed by the boyish-looking former commissioner of major league baseball will buy strike-bound and bankrupt Eastern Air Lines for $464 million. Celebrating Ueberoth's move in a Miami union hall where they heard the news, boisterous Eastern machinists began singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game. The initial response of striking employees to their prospective new boss held promise that Ueberroth may be able to get Eastern's fleet back into service quickly. Ueberroth, though, shrugged...
...pilots' union has looked favorably on the deal. So have rank- and-file machinists, but by week's end machinists' union officials were criticizing the transaction as a giveaway to Lorenzo. "I think the deal stinks. They are cutting up Eastern so that it can't survive," said Wally Haber, senior general chairman of the airline's machinists' union. "I like to play baseball, but I like to play on a winning team." Some labor officials may have been talking tough because they still had to go to the bargaining table with Ueberroth...