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Perhaps so. But such assurances did not ease NASA'S embarrassment over the whole Skylab affair, which arose because of a scientific error about the extent of sunspot activity in the late 1970s and its effect on Skylab. By spewing out clouds of charged particles, these great solar magnetic storms help heat up and expand the earth's upper atmosphere. That creates more drag for objects in orbit, hastening their reentry. Confronted by a falling Skylab, NASA last spring began developing the $26 million booster engine. But it was clear, especially after troubles with the shuttle...
...counter that fear by ballyhooing a proposal to Congress to grant income-tax rebates to workers whose wages rise slower than prices do. But Congressmen worry that such "real wage insurance" would be inordinately expensive, and union leaders, planning their strategies, have no assurance that it will be in effect as they go to the bargaining table...
...prepared for a long strike and reportedly threatened to reject their bids for drilling leases on federally owned land if they agree to a settlement that busts the guidelines. Says OCAW President Alvin Grospiron angrily: "This kind of interference helps to promote strikes." An industry official in effect agrees: "The guidelines have complicated the situation because the size of the settlement has become a matter of pride with the union. A strike is now more likely...
...these negotiations, and in others through next year (see box), a labor version of the domino theory will be in effect. If the oil workers agree to a moderate contract, the Teamsters may follow, and then other unions. But, says one Administration official, "if OCAW busts the guidelines, then we will lose the [Teamsters'] master freight agreement, and if we lose that we can forget about the whole guidelines program." At this stage, no one can tell which way the dominoes will fall...
That view may be losing ground. Delaware and Nebraska have adopted new laws allowing wives to charge live-in husbands with rape, and a similar statute in New Jersey will go into effect next September. More states permit wives who are separated from their husbands to charge rape, and women's groups elsewhere are becoming vocal on the subject. They resent what Nancy Burch, director of the Oregon women's center that Greta first contacted, calls the "archaic notion that a woman is her husband's property." The Rideout case is the first of its kind under...