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...N.E.A. seems to be willing to consider ways of working out a fair merit-pay plan. Mary Hatwood Futrell, the president-elect, has declared that the union is still "tough on merit pay, but not so tough that we're not willing to open discussion." Don Cameron, who succeeds Herndon as executive director, has called on the N.E.A. "to review many longstanding policies." Cameron has also declared, "Let us state that there are some incompetent teachers in America's classrooms." At the convention, the N.E.A. delegates voted to set up a task force, headed by Futrell, to monitor...
...what could prove to be the greatest advance in grocery merchandising since the supermarket, the Phone In-Drive Thru market has opened in (where else?) Los Angeles. With the aim of eliminating the cart-pushing, checkout-waiting drudgery of conventional stores, Entrepreneur Ron Cameron, 41, has devised a system by which the shopper does not have to set foot in the store. In return for a $20 one-time membership fee, the householder gets a 33-page monthly catalogue listing nearly 4,000 products from which he or she can order. The customer then phones it in to a computer...
...minutes it took to reach the runway, the crew shepherded passengers to the front of the 101-seat plane; some on board held napkins and wet cloths to their faces against the choking fumes. By the time of touchdown, so much smoke had filled the cockpit that Pilot Don Cameron could not see his controls...
...communities report burgeoning crime by illegal aliens. In Dallas, an outcry erupted last January when a Mexican who had been deported five times was charged with killing a policeman. "I've had 5,712 people in jail since the first of the year," says Sheriff Marshall Rousseau of Cameron County on the Texas border, "and 39% have been illegal aliens...
...otherwise subtle lighting design turns a bit blatant for the great funeral speech, dropping to a single spotlight as soon as Antony begins to speak, spectators' yells coming out of the near-pitch dark. Even that tactic, though, carries a certain ingenuous charm; why shouldn't Woronicz and director Cameron-Webb admit they're enjoying playing this scene? Anyone who studied the play in high school and whispered the lines to himself is likely to sympathize...