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Under the Hammer...
Grays, Canaday, Hollis, Holworthy, Pennypacker and Stoughton Halls all went under the hammer this summer, the third year in a row that construction workers have visited the Yard for June, July and August...
...during the 50-day 1981 strike. An optimistic source who is in touch with both the owners and the players' union painted an upbeat scenario of baseball returning around Labor Day. "It'll take a week before both sides begin serious bargaining," he theorized. "Another 10 days to hammer out an agreement. And maybe four or five days for the players and teams to get ready to resume play." But as in any work stoppage, timetables are all airy speculation. "What this boils down to is a test of wills," says John Helyar, author of Lords of the Realm...
Attempting to hammer out a passable bill, both houses of Congress grappled with drafts of health-care reform proposals. At week's end House Democratic leaders announced a bill that would provide universal coverage and require employers to pay most of their workers' insurance costs, with subsidies provided for small businesses. In the Senate, where opposition to employer payments is tougher, majority leader George Mitchell indicated he might propose that employers and workers split the cost of insurance fifty-fifty -- but only as a last resort if voluntary measures fail to achieve universal coverage. Minority leader Bob Dole grumbled ominously...
...first-year dorms were scheduled for the overhauls, which began in the summer of 1992. Lionel, the exterior of Massachusetts, Mower and Weld Halls went under the hammer at the end of May. But while all needed renovation, one dorm was more needy than the others--Weld, which was gutted and refitted...