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...current three-year contract runs out June 30, 1991, and new contract talks are slated to begin this December. This time around, though, the spectacle of a fiery, emotional, union-management conflict is likely to be absent. The kid gloves...
...waters of Kennebunkport, Bush and his National Security Adviser, Brent Scowcroft, ponder "the new rationality," where facts will not be obliterated by rigid ideology. White House planners are anticipating a reemergence of Christianity in Russia, bringing with it a moral framework that has long been absent from Soviet political life...
...banks, prompting them to cut back drastically on their lending. Companies drowning in debt are slashing capital investment and firing employees. Nearly 1 million workers have been laid off so far this year. Even the government, usually a reliable spender of last resort in a recession, will be absent this time because of record deficits at every level -- local, state and federal...
Supporters of the new policy argue that combat missions are an essential stepping-stone to promotions. While, for example, women account for 9.9% of the enlisted personnel and 10.5% of the officers in the Air Force, they are virtually absent at the senior-officer level. Of the service's 333 generals, only three are women. "The opponents talk about sex and toilets, but this fight is really about privilege and power," says military analyst and former Army Captain Carolyn H. Becraft...
...began badly. On a balmy June Thursday, eminences from the world of advertising arrived at a Manhattan auditorium for the first round of 1991's Clio Awards, the industry's high-profile, hotly pursued "Oscars." But Clio's tuxedoed officials were oddly absent, as were the tickets that some attendees had paid...