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...example cited by proponents of this view is the uproar over the unionization drive going on now (see accompanying story). Another was the expansion of the Coop into downtown Boston two years ago, which some criticized as having nothing to do with students' needs. Coop officials then defended the move by pointing out that the new store was in the same building housing the downtown Boston Harvard Club and thus served an important Coop constituency, alumni. And recently, several officials said that sales there have helped balance less profitable parts of the Coop operation like textbooks--and thus--you guessed...
...million-member Seventh-day Adventist Church is normally the most doctrinally placid and prosperous of faiths. Lately, however, it has fallen into unaccustomed uproar. For starters, church members are suing Adventist officials in an Oregon court for fraud and breach of fiduciary trust, stemming from the 1981 bankruptcy of fellow Adventist Donald Davenport, a Los Angeles developer. The suit charges that without adequately checking Davenport out, Adventist clergy blithely invested church trust funds with him and urged church members to make their own investments. As his empire collapsed, Davenport supposedly used newly raised moneys to cover payments due to previous...
...vacations this summer, either Baker or Deaver is set to help Meese at the California White House. Meese was also responsible in part for getting the President to endorse tax-exempt status for private segregated schools, a policy that Reagan had to abandon after a loud public uproar...
...thing. To attack the territory of another, and perhaps kill his civilians, is something different. The means were there. The R.A.F. Vulcans were in service and their bomb loads ready. There was little doubt that they could greatly reduce, even entirely neutralize, the Argentine air force. Would the resulting uproar in the Organization of American States and perhaps in the United Nations, and the probable worldwide shift in sympathy toward the Argentines be worth it? Would it not be preferable to accept the certainty of higher casualties and the possibility of stalemate-or even failure-in the assault...