Word: bal
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...work force, the lowest in 50 years? Plenty, say labor leaders: unfriendly Administrations have enabled employers to stall off union- representation elections for years and even break strikes. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich now proposes to change all that. Meeting with the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Florida, Reich repledged Bill Clinton's support for a law to prohibit employers from hiring permanent replacements for striking workers (the certainty of a George Bush veto long kept the Democratic majorities in Congress from even trying to pass such a law). Further, said Reich, Clinton will appoint a special commission...
...answer to that question may determine the success and overall reputation of the council, which has regained respectability after Vice Chair Maya G. Prabhu '94 was forced to resign for tampering with the bal- lots of a social committee co-chair election...
...original vote, conducted by council Vice Chair Maya G. Prabhu '94, was contested by McKay and Poulios. Poulios charged that Prabhu rigged the vote, possibly altering bal- lots and discarding the evidence afterwards...
...Raqsa bal Kamangani: Dance for Violin and Cello by Riad Abdel-Gawad juxtaposes Middle Eastern and Western sounds. The lower strings of both instruments are muted, raising the pitches by one-third. The piece opens with plucked violin and cello. The instruments make a rhythmic and harmonic pattern upset by occasional individual sounds. A mix of bowing and plucking follows, which then blends into furious bowing. The timbre is fascinating; the drama of the piece is rich...
...made of dollar bills. In keeping with that notion, tony Florida clothier Maus & Hoffman is offering as gift wrap uncut sheets of 32 $1 bills for $55. (The Bureau of Engraving and Printing mails such sheets for $47.) Sales people at the company's five stores in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and other playgrounds of the rich attach a sticker warning that the wrapping is real money. They also provide instructions to iron the sheets and frame them or roll them up for storage in the family safe. Of course, says owner Bill Maus, "some customers simply cut them...