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...LATEST renewal of the dispute between Harvard and the union started in the spring of 1980, shortly after Fraser visited the 12 determined organizers on District 65's Med Area committee. The union began laying the groundwork for a second representation effort by quietly enlisting support and loudly associating itself with causes celebres. By that fall, they were fully immersed in the organizing drive, signing clerical and technical workers to cards (Under labor law, a union needs 30 per cent of the proposed unit to sign cards.) The union filed for the right to hold and election last December...
...Those first girls laid the groundwork," he adds...
...background, the rise to power of a military man raised unsettling questions. Did it signal an imminent use of force? Did Jaruzelski's elevation mean the end of Kania's policy of seeking a peaceful accommodation with Solidarity? Was the Soviet-trained officer chosen to lay the groundwork for an eventual Soviet-Warsaw Pact military intervention...
This fall, after a year of groundwork, John E. Dowling '57, professor of Biology and chairman of the student-faculty "Committee to review the structure of College governance," is confident that a centralized, effective student council--funded by a $10 surcharge--will be operating by February. "For the first time there will be a unified student government with a significant impact on decision-making within the University," Dowling insists...
...prom, each has been eyeing the other, hoping for an invitation to dance. Last week, with congressional Republicans acting as chaperons, they began edging toward one another in a series of private meetings-at the White House, the Treasury Department, in a Capitol hideaway-that laid the groundwork for a possible compromise tax bill...