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...ignore American protests. But that is not so easy now that the Soviet Union is out of the superpower business and the trade and investment China needs so badly are available mostly from capitalist nations. "China knows full well that its future depends on relations with developed countries," says Gaston Sigur, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Asia...
...general election to Republican John Volpe. He lost a race for attorney general in 1966 and another bid for governor in 1970. He won the 1975 attorney general's race and served in that office until 1987. He now works as a partner with the Boston law firm of Gaston & Snow. He is the Democratic party's endorsed candidate for governor...
Just what did the budget summiteers do for 11 weeks? Not much. Though the panel met 18 times, its members never talked about the two essential elements in any budget deal: raising revenues and cutting entitlements. Instead, the two sides engaged in an Alphonse-and-Gaston routine, dithering over procedure, accounting rules and leaks...
...resurrection of the Mets is far from unique. When Joe Morgan was tapped as manager of the Boston Red Sox in July 1988, the supercharged team immediately won twelve straight games and the division crown. So too with last year's Toronto Blue Jays and fill-in manager Cito Gaston, who inherited an unmotivated team mired in sixth place and spurred it into the American League play-offs. Gaston modestly insists, "You can only do what you can with what you have in terms of talent." There is no way to precisely quantify managerial might-have-beens. But author Bill...
...past few years the same technique has been used against flight attendants, printers, papermill employees, restaurant workers and others -- both in the public and the private sector. In West Virginia some 15,000 teachers went on strike two weeks ago in a dispute over pay raises. Last week Governor Gaston Caperton suggested that county officials should begin firing the teachers and replacing them with volunteers. On Saturday union officials urged the teachers to end the strike...