Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after Begin checked into the hospital complaining of exhaustion on Sept. 30. The hospital became, in effect, Israel's seat of government. Begin's three top assistants, along with his secretary, Yona Klimovizky, all moved into makeshift offices set up in the hospital's intensive care unit. Three direct phone lines were installed, including one secure line for long distance calls...
...bill is now on the council table, and if it passes the yard area will be considered a "Planned Unit Development" and the city will have to approve any construction on the site, Beatrice said...
...science of gerontology (the study of aging) has expended prodigious efforts to locate life's master clock and perhaps use that precious knowledge to slow it or even stop it. One locale for the clock (if there is indeed only one) may be within the smallest unit of life, the cell. Growing normal embryonic cells of various species in a test tube, Biologist Leonard Hayflick has made an astonishing finding: they are not immortal, as scientists believed from early experiments, in which a single cell line had been cultivated for years, but have definite life spans...
...traditional union practice of assigning all shifts on the basis of seniority, with the most experienced officers getting the best hours. The most likely way out of the dilemma would appear to be either the elimination of the task force or an agreement excluding it from the bargaining unit, and therefore exempting it from union seniority rules. Neither route, however, is popular...
Letteri, however, maintains that he never made such an offer, and that it would not be in the best interests of the union. "This is how they would do away with all seniority," he says: once the task 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...