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...workers large increases the first year, guaranteed smaller raises the second and third years and allowed the union to reopen to press for more. But it provided that disputes over wages and benefits be settled by binding arbitration. One aim was to free the industry from the boom-bust cycle that used to attend union bargaining. Steel users would pile up huge inventories during the talks to carry them through a strike, then cut stockpiles after agreement was reached, sending the mills into a slump. Organization Candidate McBride is willing to keep the no-strike approach, if possible, when contracts...
Archie Bunker seeks sexual fulfillment with a waitress. Rhoda and Joe bust up. Charlie Haggars undergoes television's first testicle transplant. Maude's Arthur goes bankrupt. Ted Baxter has a heart attack in mid-newscast. Lionel Jefferson marries Jennie. Florida loses her husband. McMillan loses his wife, his sidekick and his housekeeper...
...Alphonse Mucha was a sculptor too, and nothing in this show epitomizes the art nouveau vision (or fantasy) of woman better than a bust he designed around 1899 for a Parisian jeweler. This astonishing object, whose form shifts like water in the twining reflections of silver flesh and gold hair, is perversely liturgical-a parody (done, one should recall, for a public whose cultural background was still Catholic) of medieval head reliquaries. The image, however, is not a saint or a magdalen but that sibylline bitch of the fin-de-siècle imagination, the Fatal Woman, La Belle Dame...
...realization that the ticket was a bust had been evident to Schweiker for at least 24 hours. As soon as Gerald Ford won the vice-presidential rules fight the previous evening, Schweiker had telephoned Reagan with an offer to resign. It was shortly after midnight, and an aide told Schweiker the Governor had gone to sleep. Schweiker urged him to check the bedroom because he had something important to say. He was asked to wait until the next morning, and at breakfast he finally told Reagan, who quickly declined his offer to withdraw. "I'm not going to leave...
...boom-or-bust U.S. airline industry, profits have been about as permanent as a jet contrail in a wind-blown sky. Yet last week there was evidence that at least some form of profitability had returned to the nation's eleven major scheduled carriers; it is expected to stay intact through the busy summer tourist season and probably through the end of the year. One by one, the airlines reported sharply increased second-quarter earnings-or dramatically reduced losses-v. the savagely depressed similar period of a year ago, when the recession was cutting deeply into pleasure and business...