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...Christmas - there'll be a turkey but no presents this year." But Collis was not ready to back down. An FBU representative, he was among 88% of firefighters who had voted to back the union's call for a 40% pay rise. After the first strike, FBU leader Andy Gilchrist had suggested they might accept 16%. The employers, at the instructions of the British government, demanded that the firemen first agree to modernize the service by, among other things, taking on more first-aid tasks - even training as paramedics - and changing inflexible shift patterns. The two sides cobbled together...
...blaming the firemen. Instant T.V. opinion polls showed about half of all Britons sided with the strikers. (It helped that few people were seriously inconvenienced; tube and train lines remained open.) Across the country, motorists driving past picket lines honked in solidarity. Public sympathy strengthened FBU leader Andy Gilchrist's resolve to hold out for a bigger pay rise. "We now have a window of opportunity before the next strike to seek a resolution before any more lives are put at risk," he said at the conclusion of the first strike. Gilchrist, 41, emerged as the dispute's early winner...
...risks of such casual oversight--coupled with the pressure that labs are under to produce evidence--were underscored last year when Oklahoma police chemist Joyce Gilchrist was fired, allegedly for committing scientific errors and misinterpreting results. The state is reviewing more than 1,000 cases she handled. Gilchrist denies any wrongdoing...
...moderate activists in their ranks. The Club For Growth, which calls itself a Ronald Reagan-style pro-tax cut group that raises money for conservative GOP candidates, plans to pump more than $100,000 into a Maryland primary Sept. 10 in order to oust moderate Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrist, who's seeking a seventh term. Alarmed that their thinning ranks might get even thinner, the House Republican Main Street Partnership, made up of moderate GOP members of Congress, says it'll fight the Club dollar for dollar in Maryland...
...August 29, Morrow will publish "The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage," edited by Cathi Hanauer. The 26 bitches who have written original essays include Ellen Gilchrist, Hope Edelman, Pam Houston, Daphne Merkin, former TIME writer Natalie Angier, Vivian Gornick, Jill Bialosky, Helen Schulman, Chitra Divakaruni, Karen Karbo, Kate Christensen, Elissa Schappell, Veronica Chambers and Susan Squire. According to the publisher, "These essays are the culmination of the lessons of the past two decades - the 'me' years, the therapy years, the years that have taught women to express themselves, feel...