Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glasses and mugs instead of paper cups in all dining halls besides the Union Even in Adams and Quincy--which try hard to hide their reuseable cups--have mugs or glasses that you can use. Bring your own mug for take-out coffee--it's nicer than paper anyway. Save old handouts and notices and write your rough-drafts of papers, problem sets or letters on the back of them, instead if using fresh paper. Take lecture notes on both sides of each sheet of paper in notebooks or yellow pads. Use handkerchiefs instead of paper tissues--they are cheaper...
Beyond Harvard, there are other ways to act to bring change. Consider the ethics of the firm you may work for after graduation. Is it a company with values like Exxon's or Union Carbide's? Does it finance "development" projects that lead to destruction of native cultures and rainforests? Does it exploit laborers such as native American migrant farm workers? By making far-sighted choices about who we work for and how we live, we can help to bring about the changes which must by made if we are to move beyond this time of crisis and create...
...reason: union sick-leave policies would mean the city would have to bear the cost of pre-natal care and maternity leaves...
President of the East German Union of Writers. A well-known Establishment author, he has called the refugee exodus a "defeat." He cautions against "pomp and ceremony and all this miserable smugness," and contends that the worst thing about East Germany is "the condition it is in today...
...crisis down below. Given Krenz's hard-line convictions, there is little expectation that he will be the leader who will guide East Germany along the path toward social and economic reform. Krenz may turn out to be only a transitional figure, put in place, like the Soviet Union's Konstantin Chernenko, to warm the chair for a more visionary thinker. "The real reformers will take over power in the next six to twelve months," predicts Wolfgang Seiffert, a former adviser in the East German Communist Party who now teaches at West Germany's Kiel University. Others see in Krenz...