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From the outside, the AFL-CIO objected to the breakup of the Education and Labor Committee, fearing that a Labor Committee would focus too narrowly, like some kind of arbitrator, on management-labor disputes. A coalition of environmental groups opposed the marriage of energy and environment in one committee, fearing that their cause would receive short shrift in a group dominated by energy producers...
Charlie and Bill are creatures of the present. We know nothing of their pasts and only the barest outlines of their futures. Bill is separated from his wife, but the details of the breakup remain unknown. He is the editor of a magazine, but the nature of the magazine and the work he does for it remain opaque. We see the women Charlie lives with, but how he came to do so, and what their relationship is, we are never told. As far as we can make out, Charlie has no profession, and all his time is spent gambling...
About 150 million years ago, during the breakup of a supercontinent that geologists call Gondwanaland,* South America and Africa began to drift apart, creating the Atlantic Ocean. There is convincing evidence for the once controversial theory that the two continents were once joined; geological features and fossil remains on opposite sides of the ocean show a remarkable match, and the shelves, or underwater plateaus, extending from each of the continents into the Atlantic form a near perfect fit, like adjacent pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. One piece of the puzzle, however, seemed to be missing. There was a deep indentation...
Much of the credit goes to Managing Director David Plastow, 42, who was named head of the new management group that launched the motor division as an independent firm after its aero-engineering parent went under. Plastow says that the breakup of the old company was the best thing that ever happened to its motorcar division because "too many workaday decisions - including every aspect of pricing - had to be referred to the old company...
...during the marriage breakup that Jackson started to see a psychiatrist. "I wasn't ready for the responsibility of having a woman love me," he recalls. "In those days I was concerned with only one thing-Reggie Jackson hitting home runs. I got some help. It was too late to save the marriage, but I think I've learned a lot about myself...