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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...management and labor, to a refusal to allow any German-style worker-director or incentive-involvement schemes--is largely responsible for Britain's appalling labor relations, and not the so-called leftist shop stewards that the Tory press loves to attack. If the Tories go for the easy option of making the unions scapegoats, they risk a confrontation besides which the miners' strike of 1974 (which brought down the Health government) and the disruptions of last winter will seem like tea-parties...

Author: By Gordon Marsden, | Title: Britain Under the 'Iron Lady' | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...seek a position, it seems to me, an option, if you want, an option for the University, which recognizes that morality is bound up in this case both with the ends and the values which we are pursuing, which have to do, as I'll come to in a moment, and with the means by which those ends are to be pursued. We do not get up here and say that we wish to clean our hands of the case, because we recognize that the means reflect on the moral stance which we take. We also seek morality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Transcript of Faculty Meeting | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

...option of taking the tests early will remain open to all History concentrators, Denault said, adding that he hoped more juniors take the exams in the future...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: History Department Will Allow Juniors to Take General Exams | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

Donations to the Steven Biko Fund will provide scholarships for black South Africans to come to Harvard. Earmarking gifts for the regular scholarship fund, an option proposed by the Senior Gift Committee to those who feel they should not give freely to the University, will have minimal impact. Money contributed to the scholarship fund only means that the University will draw less for scholarships from the unrestricted General Fund. Donors are filling the same tub, just from a different side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give to the Biko Fund | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

...results of last week's poll have given the assembly initiatives to follow-up for a long time to come. Pfeffer added. The poll shows strong student support (65 per cent) for an experimental, one-year 14 mealplan option, and a whopping 83 per cent of the ballots ask for longer library hours during reading period...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: The Party's Over | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

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