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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Reagan's rhetoric is likely to raise hackles in the Third World too, and his policies could exacerbate the U.S.'s problems there. He mocks the Carter human rights campaign as naive, saying that the U.S. must strive to be respected rather than liked. Instead of using diplomatic pressure to promote civil liberties, he believes, the U.S. should advertise its own prosperity. He says he would urge the Voice of America and other media to propagandize "unapologetically" on behalf of "American capitalism as a model for economic development." Such boosterism might well generate more resentment than respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Reagan Confronts the World | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...dining hall workers would find no one to serve during those six weeks. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, says the College would try to reassign workers to other jobs for that period--as it does in the summer--but might have to lay off workers instead. Fox also mentions that the empty buildings might require extra security, possibly adding to police costs...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Calendar Reform Waltz | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...academic institution, the College will probably continue to give priority to educational concerns, at least until advisers from within instead of students from without bring up the energy problem. "As oil hits higher and higher marks," Olsen argues, "they will have to look at it. The ironic thing is that they're going to have to do it eventually anyway." For now, however, administrators are not sold on the idea, and something more than the assembly's $250,000 predicted savings would be needed to convince them to incur the educational costs they see in the proposal...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Calendar Reform Waltz | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...almost backfired in its negotiations with Local 26, representing the dining hall employees. Powers offered the 10-9-8 with a clause making the proposal retroactive to April 1 (the kitchen workers' present contract expires June 19) before bargaining started. The union membership voted down the offer in March, instead approving a list of demands asking for a 20-per-cent across the board wage increase, improved fringe benefits, and additional holidays...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The University's Clean Sweep | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...planning to hold a birthday party for the universe, you'd better put fewer candles on the cake--nine billion instead of 15 billion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Universal Growth | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

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