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...Fred Fellows doesn't have to rope in rodeos for a living any more, which is just as well, since roping is no living at all, unless you can eat the silver belt buckles they give away for prizes. Joe Beeler is pushing the outer limits of legal bliss, because he doesn't have to wear those damn black business shoes...
More broadly, executives hope that the incoming Administration can temper the antibusiness hostility that they believe has prevailed in Washington for much of the 1970s and complicated efforts to deal with the nation's economic malaise. The Reagan White House, says Charles Bliss, chief executive officer of Chicago's Harris Bank, has an opportunity to "set the tone for the beginning of the decade toward solving our problems of inflation, slipping productivity and declining standard of living. We will have a whole new appraisal of the role of Government...
...Said Union Counsel I. Philip Sipser: "The cause of the dispute is overwork, which produces illness and tension." The Met board was equally adamant, claiming that to give in would set a precedent for other unions and wreck the opera's precariously balanced budget. Said Executive Director Anthony Bliss: "Survival is the question...
...precise details of the settlement awaited this week's ratification vote, but it almost certainly represented a mutually acceptable tradeoff. "We got to the top in more ways than the 17th floor," exults Violinist Sandor Balint. The management is just as happy. "I'm elated," says Bliss. The real hero is Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz, who persuaded both sides to lay aside their almost pathological hostilities. Says he: "They got rid of all that nonsense in the last three days and stopped shouting at each other...
Cults rob members of their free-will, Singer said, adding that cult leaders instruct recruits not to fight indoctrination by repeatedly telling new members to "melt, bliss-out and reach mindlessness...