Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Says a union leader: "T will sit down and tell you a few raunchy jokes." But Wilson does not sentimentalize his associates as part of the Boeing "family"; he regards them as a group of competent engineers and draftsmen united for a common cause. "I am grading them all the time," he says. "There is no use patting everybody on the popo when they may be in the wrong environment...
...organizations have refused to meet in non-ERA states, forgoing meetings in such traditional convention cities as Chicago, New Orleans and Miami. Now comes a major backslider from that boycott commitment: the American Psychiatric Association. On the pretense that the A.P.A. should avoid involvement in any political issue, the group voted 5,679 to 4,461 to rescind its boycott policy...
...study, reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine by Physiologist James White and Dr. Herman Froeb, examined the effects of smoking on 2,100 men and women. Within this group, nonsmokers who did not work in smoky environments came out best on tests of the lungs' ability to hold air and expel it. Those who had smoked more than 40 cigarettes a day for more than 20 years had the worst results. But nonsmokers who had worked for more than 20 years in smoke-filled areas had scores similar to those of light smokers (people...
Reggae has already been absorbed into the English punk scene. The Clash perform their own blistering versions of reggae tunes. But a group called the Specials, as well as their allied band, Madness, have dusted off ska and made it shine like new. Both bands have had hit singles and albums on their home turf. Now the records have been receiving an encouraging amount of FM air play here, while Specials and Madness concerts around America have been enthusiastically attended by disenfranchised new wavers and punks without portfolio. Ska may or may not be the latest crest...
Graduate women also serve as teaching assistants and propose curriculum changes and additions which affect undergraduate women. I am certain that the Institute of Politics Study Group on "Women in Power in Government" which I helped Professor Valerie Nelson of MIT to organize for this semester would never had been thought of without exposure to the so many excellent programs and contact with other university women which the Forum has fostered...