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THESE UFW SETBACKS have occurred even though the current law strongly favors Chavez. Because elections must be held at peak harvest when short-term workers usually outnumber year-round workers, UFW organizers and students with little if any previous field experience have allegedly signed up to work a few days and then have voted in the election, sometimes repeating this process at several ranches. Students and UFW organizers have also allegedly voted under the economic striker clause even though they appeared at the polls with no identification or record of employment to prove they were legitimate strikers...
EVEN JOYCE MAYNARD couldn't have chosen a better scenario. In 1969 the U.S. Forest Service announced its approval of a plan for a mammoth, year-round resort in California's Mineral King valley, 16,000 acres of national forest land high in the southern Sierra Nevada. Controversy erupts, fueled by the public's revived awareness of environmental abuse. Behind the contested $35-40 million project is not ITT but the corporation created by a childhood exemplar of the Leave-It-to-Beaver generation--the father of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck, Walt Disney. Thus fell another idol of Maynard...
...quarter plan, Bruce said, would also make future transition to a year-round operation easier...
Gorski adds that on a year-round basis, 12 additional cops would only mean two more men on the beat each day. "It would be a sad commentary on the state of affairs here if the University had to hire more security personnel while cutting back on faculty," he says...
...Middle East. The style, says another American designer, Jonathan Hitchcock, "includes anything Eastern-Tibetan, Persian, Indian. It is a much more primitive way of making clothes-simple and functional yet sophisticated." And versatile. Fashions like Hitchcock's side-wrapped, hip-length "Tibetan" jacket can be worn year-round. Moreover, the less extreme Chinese fashions seem unlikely to go out of style. The look, says Joan Sibley, of Sibley & Coffee, a Manhattan design firm, "is elegant and classic. It is not really...