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There are days when it does not pay to show up for work. But sometimes it pays plenty. When Purcell, Graham, a blue-chip London brokerage house, opened for business last Monday, about half its 120 brokers were absent. By day's end it seemed that many had skipped to a nearby rival, Cantor Fitzergald, which is rumored to have offered to double the defectors' salaries...
Perhaps Professor Kennedy would prefer the atmosphere of some European universities, where groups on both sides of the political spectrum routinely hire thugs to disrupt meetings of their opponents. At such institutions, productive dialogue between students is completely absent...
...absent-minded way the United States in Vietnam may well have stumbled upon the answer to wars of national liberation.' The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...City Councilor William H. Walsh commissioned a report from the city manager on the formula used to tax rent-controlled housing, which Walsh said places a unfair burden on homeowners. The order passed by a vote of 5 to 2, with liberal lawmakers Saundra Graham and Alice K. Wolf absent...
Like a fifth-grader caught without his homework, Moonlighting has plenty of excuses. In the midst of filming the multi-parter, Willis broke his collarbone on a Sun Valley ski slope and was absent three days. Another two weeks' worth of shooting was lost while Shepherd, who is expecting twins in October, was fighting off morning sickness. Those misfortunes only complicated the show's chronic inability to stay on schedule. Most network series turn out at least 22 new episodes a season; Moonlighting will be lucky to scrape together 17. Its scripts are often finished just a few hours before...