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With the latest eruption, the estimated loss to crops, timber and property rose to nearly $1.5 billion. The cost of the cleanup is staggering. Mud dumped into the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers must be dredged out. Roads and bridges will have to be rebuilt and sewage and drain systems unplugged. In Washington State alone, 370,000 people have been left temporarily jobless. Perhaps one-tenth may be out of work for a year. A still incalculable long-term effect may be a rash of respiratory and lung ailments from continued inhalation...
...enjoy the reputation of a warm, sympathetic employer. Many University workers resent the attitude of the administrators toward negotiations, as embodied by Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations and the University's principal negotiator: "Harvard is primarily an educational institution, and it's a shame to drain off financial resources unnecessarily to support services...
...unions and the University over issues such as attrition, discrimination, contracting out and job security did not seem to bode well for easy negotiations. Union leaders expressed a willingness to struggle hard after a two-year hiatus, and resentment towards Harvard's attitude--"It's a shame to drain off financial resources unnecessarily to the support services," Powers says--did not promise tranquil bargaining sessions...
Together, the rises are expected to drain at least $20 billion out of the treasuries of oil-importing nations. They will also add anywhere from 1? to 2? per gal. to U.S. gasoline prices. That in turn is beginning to raise some doubt as to whether inflation, which the White House hopes will show substantial improvement by late summer, will actually decline by that much after...
...baby is what happens to the mother immediately afterward. Cole is particularly good in her description of the upheaval: the physical exhaustion, bodily ruin, wetness, bewilderment, depression. "Conserve power," she advises. "Don't plan on dinner for twenty. Don't entertain too many relatives that are a drain on you. Don't - as I did - fly out to Santa Barbara for a week . . . Don't try to prove that having a baby isn't going to make a difference in your life," she warns...