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  2. Harold Lasswell - Wikipedia

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    Harold Dwight Lasswell (February 13, 1902 – December 18, 1978) was an American political scientist and communications theorist.He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and economics and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. [1]

  3. New York City Transit Authority - Wikipedia

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    The bond issue passed, and the MTA was set to take over the NYCTA in 1968. The night before December 31, 1967, the NYCTA and the TWU made an agreement to avoid a strike. The deal gave NYCTA workers the ability to retire with about half-pay after twenty years if the employee was over fifty years old.

  4. Legacy preferences - Wikipedia

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    Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [19] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...

  5. Duke University - Wikipedia

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    Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. [10]

  6. John Berger (politician) - Wikipedia

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    John Berger is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since December 2022, representing the Southern Metropolitan Region.

  7. South African Transport and Allied Workers Union - Wikipedia

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    The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is a trade union in South Africa.SATAWU went to a national congress in 2018 after being compelled by the 2017 court order to do so, this was based on the fact that the then leadership was not complying with the SATAWU Constitution and had total disregard of accountability on the finances, our subscriptions, which led to ...

  8. 1985 Pan Am strike - Wikipedia

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    A Pan Am commercial airliner, 1984. On December 31, 1984, labor contracts between Pan American World Airways and five labor unions [note 1] representing 21,000 of the company's 26,000 workers [note 2] for the company expired without replacements in line, with the company arguing that further concessions regarding wages and productivity levels were required from the unions in order to maintain ...

  9. 1980 New York City transit strike - Wikipedia

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    The transit workers' contract was up for renewal in April 1980. Negotiations began on February 4, with the TWU initially demanding a 21-month contract with a 30% wage increase; they justified the hike by claiming that the cost of living had gone up 53% since the last contract negotiation, and their contract did not account for changes in the cost of living. [1]