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Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and U.S. Special Trade Representative Bill Brock brought White House assurances that the Administration would listen to labor. Yet their presence had little effect on the general mood of high anxiety. Indeed, Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan created some of his own. After an hour-and-a-half meeting with the council, Donovan emerged to tell the press: "Many stood up and said, 'Give the President a chance.' " How many? Donovan "sensed" about half. Some labor leaders present had a different count. "Nobody stood up," said Glenn Watts, head of the Communications Workers...
According to one source at Monday's hour-and-a-half meeting, Bok warned organization representatives he would not change his views about the objectives of the foundation, which he will likely make explicit in his upcoming open letter...
...major chord trumpeted by the horns wanes into an A minor chord, and the reiteration of this three-second transformation during the hour-and-a-half of Abbado's new Deutsche-Grammophon recording with the Chicago Symphony warps the texture of adventure, love and almost militant drive and power until the five angels ascend, Wormwood falls, locusts emerge from the great pit, or--is it possible to compare--Brando gets what he deserves. The Pentagon might object to this violent death, or respond by sending in troops of its own. Mahler, who became a Roman Catholic in 1997, seven years...
...these awkward lines, which are difficult to digest, but not nearly so difficult as the leering way that he recounts the tale of his "love" for Aryadne. Dionysus's role has nothing to do with the body of the play, except that the production, already a mercifully short hour-and-a-half, would hardly merit an intermission were it any shorter...
Xeroxed readings on current ternational conflicts provide the examples for Fisher's presentations and the hour-and-a-half section meetings. However, their bulk shouldn't put you off--if you read The New York Times regularly, it really isn't necessary to do any of them...