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...outside Santa Barbara that has been leased for six months. Says an associate: "The idea is to have fun together, and the show will be fun too." The house has been equipped with what, even for Julia, is the dream kitchen, with two huge central islands and a six-burner Wolf gas stove. "If she turned on all her electric appliances at once, there'd be a blackout from here to Boston," says Russell Morash, the executive producer who has worked with Child for 20 years. (Morash also produces public television's widely acclaimed This Old House...
...jobs issue seemed certain to stay on the front burner: late last week newly released Labor Department figures showed February's 10.4% unemployment rate for the civilian labor force unchanged from the previous month. The jobs package will be taken up by the Senate this week. Republicans there are expected to try to reinstate some of Reagan's original priorities, like heavy-construction projects, though the White House reportedly will veto a bill crossing the $5 billion line...
...American public in a soft oil market, you can't expect them to make energy one of their top priorities, especially when you've got an economic recession going on, when you've got double-digit unemployment. I think that energy is going to be put on the back burner in the minds of a lot of the public...
...shipped all 10,000 of the Watchmans imported so far, and American distributors despair of getting enough to fill their back orders. Reason: the Japanese are buying the Lilliputian sets in such quantities (more than 5,000 per month) that the U.S. market remains on Sony's back burner. The company can use all the sales it can get. Profits for its most recently reported quarter fell sharply. Watchman is bound to help. 'Every piece we get we could sell 20 times,' says Sony's Miami-based Southeast regional manager, Barry Mitchell. In Dallas, Neiman-Marcus...
Representatives to the Undergraduate Council, after some promising campaign rhetoric on the subject, have apparently let the meaty issue of tenure be relegated to a back burner. But it is well within their scope to set up a procedure to ensure that--whether or not tenure committees want the information only students can give--it's on their desks. Just this once, we might do well to take the tip from Yale...