Word: haulings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Staffers at TIME learn to live with the necessary but often confining space constraints of journalism. Quite a number of them, however, have found an antidote for the weekly squeeze: writing books. "I enjoy the long haul of a book," says TIME Art Critic Robert Hughes, author of the best-selling The Fatal Shore (Knopf), a 688-page history of his native Australia's years as a British penal colony. "Books give you a greater sense of proprietorship," says Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, whose ninth work, City of Nets (Harper & Row), details the Hollywood of the 1940s. "They are something...
...space race when the Air Force awarded it a $734 million contract. The firm will build a fleet of up to 20 unmanned rockets by 1991 to launch military satellites. While that work is under way, it will be relatively cheap for McDonnell Douglas to build additional rockets to haul commercial payloads...
...meantime, distress has generated disorder. Last week in Rio de Janeiro thousands of truck drivers who haul food to warehouses went on strike for higher pay, and supermarket shelves began to empty. Some truckers who tried to deliver produce got their windshields smashed as they drove through gauntlets of rock-throwing pickets. After 48 hours of disruption, the strike ended when drivers received a hefty 72% raise...
...Government. But the Government appears to be less interested in striking a deal than in sending Wall Street a message." One knowledgeable stock-market analyst thinks he knows what the message says: "They're going to widen the net until they run out of fish." Last week's sudden haul is an intriguing sign that there is plenty of net left...
...staff that his chosen role is to encourage all sectors of society to talk to one another. A resolution of South Africa's troubles will take a long time, he says. Americans are too impatient for quick fixes and should learn to plan and work for the long haul...