Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advising the United Food and Commercial Workers in their effort to force Seattle-First National Bank to recognize the union as the bargaining agent for the bank's employees. He says he has recommended possible tactics to anti-nuclear activists and claims he could force banks to clear out of South Africa in a matter of months. "I'm willing to help any group fighting for labor or some just cause as long as that group supports us," he says...
...Most of the music on the album, in fact, is very well produced and performed. But no one is going to say that any potential classics are hiding in this album. From the very weak "When He Returns" to the strong "When You Going to Wake Up," it is clear that some part of Dylan has died, but hasn't gone to heaven...
...Pavarotti, reaching a top note brings on a mystical feeling such as a champion high-jumper might experience. "That second when you clear the bar in mid-air you lose consciousness," he says. "It is something physical, animal, beyond control. A moment later you are back on the ground and in full control." The haunting, universal fear that some day he will jump and miss?"that I shall open my mouth and no sound will come out" ?gives Pavarotti the whim-whams before every performance. In 1972 he made a transatlantic call to Beverly Sills about their upcoming appearance...
...Cutting back the growth of pension fund benefits in an era of double-digit inflation will be difficult but inevitable. Without some moderate increase in the burden on current workers combined with some decrease in benefits for current and future retirees, the fate of many pension programs is grimly clear. Says Richard Roeder, a pension analyst in Detroit: "For the Hamtramcks of this country, no one has an ark. The flood will come...
...Jane Fonda, who founded her health salon after discovering how exercise helped her slim down for her bikini-clad role in California Suite. "I started classes, five times a week. It was the most amazing thing. That's when I got the idea to do this." On a clear day, the Befores can see an ideal After: Fonda herself, at 41 a svelte mother of two, scissoring and sitting up. · He brought along a hair dryer to blow out the candles on the six-foot-tall birthday cake. "I wasn't about to blow out 89 candles...