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...Detroit already has laid off 2,000 of its employees and may have to dismiss hundreds more to erase a $17.6 million deficit. When the city asked 8,000 workers to forgo paid vacations and sick leave as an economy measure, said a shop steward, "We told them to shove...
...twelve. He worked delivering ice in Philly; I worked delivering ice in Newark." The physical similarities are less precise, however, and Steiger requires a two-hour makeup job before stepping in front of the cameras. As for Fields' distinctive voice, Steiger has asked the film crew to forgo their Fields impressions on the set. "It's so catching," he explains. "Everyone thinks they can do it, but it only throws...
...industries while preserving the principle of free competition. The U.S. Government for a while threatened to impose special duties on cheese imported from the Common Market, responding to American dairymen who were annoyed by the agricultural subsidies that European dairy farmers received. But American negotiators persuaded the Europeans to forgo most of the subsidies instead-a move that might cost the Europeans half their $70 million cheese-export business to the U.S. because it will drive up the price of imported cheese in American stores. The duties might have cut sales even more severely. Within the Common Market, pressure from...
This year the trustees decided to forgo further trouble. They turned their power of final approval or disapproval of the awards over to Columbia President William J. McGill. It was an unnecessary copout. Apparently sensitive to past criticism, the 14 journalists and publishers on the Pulitzer board seemed to go out of their way to overlook a President's resignation, the CIA revelations, gathering disaster in Indochina and complex Middle East diplomacy in an effort to find relatively noncontroversial subjects for their awards...
...however. Anarchists like the 19th century Frenchmen FranÇois Ravachol, and Edouard Vaillant who tossed a bomb into the National Assembly, assumed that bombs and bullets would be necessary to free mankind. Hess, who has been arrested three times for participating in an antiwar demonstration, is willing to forgo force in favor of example. Like many a true believer, he is convinced that the world is changing in his direction. Says he, with a smile: "You'll be here with me sooner or later...