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...that when they saw the job was going bad, instead of helping me by assisting with the cash flow, they thought that I couldn't handle the loss because I was a minority contractor." Cruz explains that the University's contract with him required monthly payments based on his requests. He says Harvard started "tightening the screws" on the money flow, often settling on an amount below his request, making it difficult for him to make payments to his subcontractors...
Schmidt sent a letter to Fair Share saying there was no time on the agenda to include Fair Share's request to discuss in-lieu-of-tax payments. The group showed up at the meeting anyway, but University officials would only allow it to distribute leaflets before the meeting began. After Fair Share left the campus, Schmidt was able to find time at the end of the meeting for the AHA to discuss the issue...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said last week he saw two alternatives that the Student Assembly could pursue. On the one hand, the members of the Student Assembly could request formal recognition from CHUL. On the other, Epps said, the members of the Student Assembly could ask the University to appoint a special review committee to consider different options for student government reform. The committee would be similar to the Fainsod Committee that established the student-faculty advisory committees--mainly CHUL, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR)--in the wake...
...console without human participation? To find out, the scientists separated the chimps by a transparent barrier with a small opening in it. Only one chimp was given food, but the other chimp could see the varied delicacies. Spontaneously, without any prodding by the investigators, he would punch out his request and, more often than not, his buddy would comply. At first Sherman, older and apparently more quick-witted, seemed to make "errors." When asked to share an especially tasty item-say, chocolate-he occasionally ignored the request, seemed to feign ignorance or proffered something less desirable...
...Bireh, whose slogan is "City on the Move," has always prided itself on its progressive image. In 1972, pressed for more space, townspeople asked Israeli permission to expand municipal boundaries to adjacent lands owned by Al-Bireh residents. The Israelis not only rejected the request but forbade development in two areas, including a site on which Arab businessmen wanted to build a resort...