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...where unions have long spoken loudly and carried a big stick, labor's political influence is waning. Conservatives in the Senate, under the banner of deregulation, have begun mounting an attack on federal labor laws, some of which are probably ripe for overhauling. One target: the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, which shores up wages by requiring that workers on many federal contracts be paid the "prevailing wage" in an area...
...Lola Heatherton, whose specialty is a piercing rendition of New York, New York, and Funnyman Bobby Bittman, whose jokes are as tarnished as his gold chains; and The Great White North, a public service program in which two dim-bulb brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, swill brew, cook back bacon and discuss such issues as the lack of parking space at doughnut restaurants...
...Leahy's New England village, set behind a large pond. Others crane at the 40-ft.-tall plastic man or gaze fondly over the fairground. Some vendors wear black armbands, but it is a futile gesture of mourning. Buying their last baked potato with sour cream and bacon, taking their last aim at ducks in the gallery shoot, or sizing up a young heifer, most visitors seem oblivious or indifferent to the fact that they are among the last to attend the Great Danbury State Fair...
...that get the poorest medical marks are two very popular ones-Atkins and Beverly Hills. The first, conceived by Dr. Robert Atkins, 51, restricts carbohydrates but allows unlimited consumption of meat and fat. Says Nutritionist Nancy Tiger of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital: "You can eat as much bacon, fresh sausage and those kinds of things as you want. They're high in cholesterol and saturated fat. Not good in terms of heart disease...
Goldman is particularly acute as he recounts the final decade in Graceland, with its turn-of-the-century whorehouse décor of red plush and smoked mirrors. Elvis subsisted on a diet of charred bacon, mashed potatoes and very sophisticated opiates and uppers. His affairs in shambles, he fired most of his faithful retinue in a paranoid frenzy of firearms and pills. An abject drug addict, he flew to Washington for a spur-of-the-moment meeting with Richard Nixon in connection with his role as a spokesman for the President's antidrug campaign. Said Nixon: "You dress...