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...there are 450 different special effects, including snowfalls (plastic) and a giant half-moon with glowing nose and spoon (a coke joke). While Studio 54 is fast, loud and frenzied, the month-old New York New York (membership $150) is cool and comparatively low decibel. Borrowing from the Hay den Planetarium, light specialists have devised a laser-beam system that throws streamers of color over the dancers and peppers the floor with shards of light. At one moment, the crowd may be enveloped by a mixture of fog and Faberge; at another, clouds of red smoke billow from the floor...
...TWUA is Stevens most frequent tactic. Stevens has been found guilty of illegally discharging 289 workers in 15 cases, and was forced to rehire tham with backpay totalling $1.3 million. However, legal penalties come only after two to four years of litigation, and thus long after an organizing drive hay been strangled. As a result, Stevens can effectively ignore labor laws...
OSBORNE'S DESCRIPTIONS of sailing, childhood and adolescent play are good, and add some breadth to the book. By themselves, his narrative of a sailing cruise down the Baja coast or of the mental torment involved in sliding down a swinging rope in his grandfather's huge hay barn don't say much of anything, but provide pleasant interludes between the fights Robert has with his father...
...either the winter wheat crop, already in the ground, or the crop scheduled to be planted in the spring, and the massive soil erosion almost certain to occur as the windy season now approaching wreaks havoc on dusty acreage unprotected by snow cover. Lack of green grazing land and hay is also forcing cattlemen either to sell off their thin animals at low prices or fatten them on expensive trucked-in feed. As the cost of feed has soared, ranchers virtually dumped herds, further depressing what they could get for them...
Stumping Scientists. In southwestern Minnesota, in the town of Ivanhoe, Ray Heard, a beef and dairy farmer, figures that he has lost $30,000 in the past three years and is approaching bankruptcy. This year, as his grazing land turned to dust, he spent $10,000 on hay. "We're practically giving away cattle, the prices are so low," he says. "I'm hanging on by my toenails." In just the past year, Minnesota has lost 3,000 of its 34,000 dairy farmers because of soaring feed costs and dry pastures. In South Dakota...