Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leaders of the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Civil Liberties Union at Harvard (CLUH) have arranged to bring 11 busloads of students to the march, scheduled to take place as the Supreme Court prepares to hear three key abortion rights cases in the next two months, said Ellen Zucker, vice president of the Boston chapter of the National Organization of Women...
Beginning this week, Harvard RUS and CLUH leaders said they plan to solicit supporters at the 12 upperclass houses and the Union. Round-trip bus tickets will sell for $40, and buttons and t-shirts will also be sold to publicize the march. All proceeds will go to subsidizing transportation costs for demonstrators, said Julia L. Shaffner '91, president of CLUH...
...tensions generated by the scramble for money are never far from the surface. Orthodox executives of China's state-run enterprises are very much like the Soviet Union's permanent bureaucracy, the nomenklatura. They have coasted for years under the old system, and they dislike Deng's perestroika because it asks them to compete like capitalists, and capitalism has losers. "Keeping their jobs is their No. 1 priority," says Sinclair Choy, a marine engineer from Hong Kong, who in partnership with a coastal town on the mainland runs a fishing boat-repair business. "Order, stability, calm," says Choy. "That...
...sense, Guangdong can be viewed like the Soviet Union's Baltic states, the province's relative wealth representing a willingness to stretch the rules to fit whatever works rather than restrain expansion to fit the rules. Left alone, which it may not be, Guangdong will continue to provide the nation with both hard currency and an example of entrepreneurship at full throttle...
...must classify by ethnicity, The New York Times reported recently that some of the most active criminal networks in New York involve immigrants from South America, Central America, and the Soviet Union. Italians did not merit mention on the list. Then what but prejudice could have prompted Mr. Troyer to use an Italian word for "mobster" where no ethnic designation was appropriate...