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While forceful, the President was not vindictive. "Dammit," he said privately to his aides, including Chief of Staff James Baker and Counsellor Ed Meese, "the law is the law, and the law says they can't strike. By striking they've quit their jobs." Later, Reagan noted publicly that the air controllers were "fine people," and added: "I do feel badly. I take no joy in this. There is just no other choice...
...strike has driven few fans into the stadium of the mind. After all, the weather is wrong. It is disconcerting to go "interior" around the first day of summer. The exterior stadium, dammit, should be operating now. Besides, no one knows how long the strike will last-these fine mental tunings cannot be made in all the haggling and tumult of a strike. Across the country, fans and reporters, radio and TV stations, have collaborated on a variety of athletic methadones meant to get them through the crisis. One afternoon last week, Oakland A's President Roy Eisenhardt...
...rise. The cheer turned to silence and then to boos as the stock, like a plane that has suddenly stalled, winged over and began to fall. At a trading station, a specialist berated a clerk who had just placed a slice of pizza on a pile of papers. "Dammit!" he shouted. "The bottom's falling out of the market, and you're stuffing your face with mozzarella...
...that a 1 a.m. curfew will be put into effect. An exception will be made for those attending the "Rocky Horror Picture Show." Norchi senses the futility and grows angrier: "If you think there should be a curfew and kids should be in bed at 1 o'clock, then, dammit, put them in bed." One local school, Belmont Hill, has come without a faculty chaperone. They threw a toga party on the 25th floor the night before. One of the members of their delegation posed as a teacher and signed them in. Chuck's problems have just begun. A staff...
...number, dammit, if we could measure it, we would know the answer," Field added...