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...Norman Tebbit, a blunt-spoken former airline pilot and staunch right-winger, as Prior's replacement signaled a toughening government stance toward the unions. Amid speculation that Tebbit would move swiftly, starting with an attack on the closed shop, he insisted he would be rational: "I am a hawk but I'm not a kamikaze...
Many hospitals are redoubling efforts to recruit new nurses and keep the ones they already have. Through newspaper advertisements and job fairs, institutions hawk themselves with the zeal and in genuity of used-car salesmen. At Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, nurses willing to work nights for six months get a $1,200 bonus plus an extra week of vacation. At Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, nurses on the night shift can take a leased car in lieu of a pay differential. In apartment-tight New York City, Beth Israel Med ical Center...
Prices for the new accessories vary so greatly that almost anyone can satisfy that metal urge. In New York City, street vendors hawk bronze leather shoulder bags for $23. A similar item at New York's Henri Bendel runs $165. Metallic belts can range from $2 for a gold cinch to $200 for a Judith Leiber number with handcrafted metal buckles from Bullock's Wilshire in Los Angeles. Miami's tony Twenty-Four Collection is devoting its entire holiday catalogue to metallics, from $124 gold-sprayed straw hats to $1,800 gold-striped snakeskin jackets...
...before sinking haplessly back to the ground. Five more times it tried to fly. On its seventh attempt it was able to get enough lift to make one complete turn before landing again. Finally, on the eighth, it began to rise, climbing in gently looping circles, like a hawk riding an updraft of warm air, to an altitude of about 250 ft. "O.K., you guys," radioed Pilot Stephen Ptacek, 28, to a control team on the ground. "I suggest you get the cars ready to leave...
...instrument of Presidents. It is the hunkered-down warning of great power that can come alive instantly, as it did in 1972 in the mining of Haiphong harbor in Viet Nam. It can also serve as a floating fragment of American hospitality, as it did when the Kitty Hawk in 1979 helped rescue the displaced and frightened boat people of Viet Nam from their desperation in the South China...