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...government has offered the unions a package of price freezes and tax cuts that, when added to S.A.F.'s proposal, would approximate labor's demand. Gunnar Nilsson, head of L.O., has rejected that approach. Many Swedes fear that the government's hands-off policy spells economic doom. But at week's end strike-bound Swedes were heartened by news that mediators had proposed pay boosts ranging from 6.8% to 7.3%. With that offer, an end to Sweden's costliest quarrel could finally be at hand...
Revenge detonates a little explosion of doom for the sake of personal-and usually rather temporary - satisfaction. But some say the practice of vengeance has its salutary, cleansing effect. Better for the circulation, they say, to liberate that maniacal little Nietzsche doll that jumps up and down inside all of us than to let him tear apart his cage...
...rank candidates. The CCA, and to a lesser extent the Independents, have created slate loyalties that allow them to dominate the powerful City Council even if others in the city elect one or two rising stars with allegiances to neither group. "This new type of voter will spell the doom of the Independent control of the City Council (currently, Independents hold a 5-4 edge over CCA members)," Vellucci predicts flatly. "It would make sense for us to be fighting condos and the CCA to be supporting them," he adds...
...French and British are alienated when President Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles denounce, and thus doom, their attack on Egypt after President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal...
...crucial and deciding match of the afternoon was decided after a hard-fought first set. Following their 6-4 defeat, Meiselman and Mertz could not rebound and were shut out, 6-0, to seal the doom of the netwomen...