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...ostensible issues are the owners' demands to put a cap on players' pay, to impose fifty-fifty revenue sharing with the players, and to eliminate salary arbitration, which has helped jack up the average wage more than 20- fold in less than 20 years, to $1.19 million. The players, of course, want to keep things green. They'll take even more money, if the owners will be so kind or so weak...
Conspicuously absent from the jacket is bassist Bill Wyman's replacement, Darryl Jones. He seems relegated to the same fold as the usual round of backup vocalists, keyboardists and horn players. It is true that bass was never the glamor solo position in this particular band. The jacket's centerfold portrays a scene of model skeletons that's a direct rip-off from the Black Crowes' second album, "Southern Harmony...
Learning to Change. Sometimes young people have been so deprived of positive activities that they need coaching when they are about to enter unfamiliar work environments. In Las Vegas, Jocelyn Oats, youth coordinator at the Nevada Partners program, starts sessions by having everyone fold a napkin. "When they are done, they see that everyone folds them differently," she says. "I make them do this so they will understand that their employer may want them to do things differently than they are used...
Another wild card in the effort at finding a compromise is Bob Dole. No one really knows when or how much he will deal. "I'm a pretty good judge of when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em," he said. "It's timing." The Senate minority leader is under pressure from his party's right wing to prevent moderate Republicans like Chafee, Durenberger and John Danforth of Missouri from signing on to any Democrat-brokered compromise that might give Clinton a victory. Of the Republican moderates, Dole said, "I like all of them...
Almost every state has at least one free-spending plutocrat. The first time New York voters met furniture-fortune heiress Bernadette Castro, she was four years old and perched on one of her family's fold-out sofas in a TV commercial. She appeared in dozens of Castro Convertible ads after that. When the New York State Republican Party chose her last month as its nominee for the U.S. Senate, they claimed that name recognition was a major factor. But there was another consideration: ever since her family sold the business last | year, Castro, now 49, has been sitting atop...