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...surprisingly strong. In the Tuscan city of Prato (pop. 160,000), for instance, the profits of family-owned textile businesses amounted to $1.5 billion last year, or about as much as Montedison and the rest of the chemical industry lost. Prato has 15,000 "factories," of which 13,000 employ ten people or fewer. The yellow stucco houses present strange sights: family wash hanging out of the upstairs windows, while lower floors are filled with spindles, looms and dye vats...
...secret mission for the CIA to warn Zagallai to tone down his criticism of Israel. As Tafoya tells it, he was at that time a kind of double agent, working for Wilson even while spying on him for the CIA. The agency denies that Tafoya was in its employ...
Predictably, the strikers were outraged, calling the raid "an Entebbe-style operation with eight helmeted and masked scabs aboard." In a postraid broadside, the shop stewards' committee warned that other companies might employ similar commando raids against their workers. Said the stewards: "The lesson is that no matter how successful your picket, this method will be used to break strikes, break unions and send us all back to the 1930s...
...Government theses are automatically considered for special government prizes, Social Studies' theses must be screened by Soc Stud, and only a few are forwarded for consideration. Furthermore, even if a Social Studies thesis is forwarded, it must compete in a department whose logic and terminology it does not necessarily employ...
Defendants have had little incentive to employ this defense, since the best hope it offered was usually a lifetime in a wretched mental hospital. In recent years, advances in drugs and psychotherapy, along with a trend toward returning mental patients to their communities, have reduced the average length of confinement. In New York State, the past 15 years have seen a sixfold increase in successful insanity pleas-from eight a year to 50. But the tendency to turn such patients loose has also led to a growing public perception that the streets are filling up with dangerous defendants who were...