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...year-long process begins in the early fall when RAZA officials submit the annual budget for recruitment to Byerly Hall. Then the hassles begin. "We have to justify our budget each year to the admissions office," Garcia says, and he points to the delay produced by the present system. "You can't get started until you get the funds, and it took us a long time this year...
...LENGTHY BATTLE of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America to hold a union-forming election in the Medical Area should soon be over. Already, much of the dust kicked up during the year-long dispute has settled; as the rhetoric and mutual recriminations die down, both sides patiently await the National Labor Relations Board's initial decision on whether it will accept the case on appeal. Union officials are privately pessimistic about their chances to obtain even a hearing from the Washington board. Despite what they claim is overwhelming sentiment in favor of a Med area union...
After nearly 20 years of court-ordered integrated education, most Americans are aware of the problems of black students brought into a predominantly white school. But what happens when it is the other way around-when a few whites attend a black school? To find out, Gretchen Schafft, an anthropologist at Catholic University of America, conducted a year-long study of "Green-trees," the fictional name of a Washington, D.C., elementary school that has an enrollment of about 400 blacks and 50 whites. Recently, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, she presented her conclusion...
ENERGY. To resolve a year-long stalemate with Congress over how to cope with the energy crisis, Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb actively intervened on the Hill to work out a compromise that would roll back the price of domestic crude oil by about 12%, then gradually phase out controls during the ensuing 40 months. Zarb estimated that the bill could cut the price of gasoline and fuel oil by as much as 2.5? per gal., then let it rise gradually...
...power brokers, big money and press attention. "It's been so frustrating for so long, so hard to get people to take us seriously, that now, with front page stories in The New York Times and this, 10,000 people, it's hard to believe," Linda Sullivan, a year-long Carter worker from Chattanooga, Tenn., who is taking time off from Northwestern, said fervently between fashionable puffs on a long cigarette...