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...strikes me as unlikely that the state legislature--which has maintained the property tax in its current form for 25 years--will be able to hammer out sensible reform in a single term. And if they don't, it means disaster," Sullivan said...
Negotiators for striking workers and management at Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant met in a marathon session yesterday in an attempt to hammer out a contract settlement that would put an end to the ten-day-old walkout of engineers and assistants who run the plant...
...China. The arrival of the Iranian mission at the U.N. sent a delicious shudder through Foggy Bottom. Castro's release of imprisoned Americans was viewed as an effort to soothe troubled waters for whoever wins the Oval Office-but Castro wants Carter. The word leaked out that Armand Hammer, the U.S. industrialist and buddy of Brezhnev's, came straight from Moscow last week with a secret letter of peaceful portents from the Soviet President for his American counterpart. Begin's slight shift on the Palestinians seemed designed to burnish his U.S. image before the big ballot...
...three months negotiations had been growing more heated but not more successful as Cambridge's teachers and school committee attempted to hammer out a new contract...
Particularly cloying to the provinces is Trudeau's proposal of a temporary amending formula. It would probably take several protracted negotiation sessions, maybe years, to hammer out an acceptable permanent formula, and in the interim the provinces would feel they lacked leverage in federal-provincial relations. Perhaps the single most important reason for the provincial premiers' refusal to perform the obvious and assent to a constitution, however, is local political pressure. None of the premiers, save Davis, can afford to appear "soft" in defending provincial interests; none can allow Trudeau to steal center stage...