Word: guardians
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...staffers promptly voted to stage a one-day strike this week to protest the cancellation. The Association of British Editors called the BBC action "a betrayal of its own best traditions." Declared an editorial in the liberal daily Guardian: "The portents for the future are bleak. A Prime Minister or Home Secretary can denounce something they haven't seen and watch the BBC watchdogs slink to the back of their kennels...
Obviously the Disney people hoped to accomplish a similar sort of generic revivification for younger children with One Magic Christmas, which is about a little girl's attempt to get her dour mom (Mary Steenburgen) into the holiday spirit. The child is given a guardian angel and Santa Claus as helpers, but the script lacks a clear narrative line, the supporting cast is woefully weak, and Director Borsos' touch is too heavy for the light fantastic. --By Richard Schickel
...chief guardian of the Victa and Sunbeam brands today is Ian Campbell, managing director of GUD Holdings. The tall, trim Campbell has a modest office in Melbourne's western suburbs above a plant that once made Ryco oil filters for automobiles. But last month, after reducing his workforce from 600 six years ago to just 50, Campbell closed the factory. Ryco-brand products will now be made overseas. "The total cost of labor for a process worker is $A49,000 a year. In China, it's $A2,500 a year. Add the cost of shipping and other things...
...opposition candidates demanded that the elections be invalidated and new ones scheduled, but it was unlikely that the government would accommodate them. P.R.I. leaders, who see their party as the guardian of Mexico's political stability, were indifferent to charges of fraud. Maximiliano Esparza, a P.R.I. functionary sent to Sonora from Mexico City to oversee the voting, called the election "a democratic fiesta. It was a clean process. The people won." Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid was even more offhand. Said he: "I'm not concerned about the confused opinions of the minorities...
...Sahara. Each day at noon, Betty Friedan conducted an informal seminar in the cool shade of a fig tree. And nearby, a dozen black-robed Iranian women assembled on the green to argue the merits of Islamic fundamentalism. Gesturing toward a group of bare-faced Westerners, the Iranians' male guardian commented, "They think these women are bodies without souls...