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Much of that voter uncertainty stems from Heath's inability to solve the three-month-old miners' dispute. From the first, the government's handling of the negotiations with the miners was inept-and last week was no different. After the miners voted overwhelmingly (81%) to strike, -Heath met with the Trades Union Congress, which represents 10 million workers, including the miners, to attempt to resolve the crisis. He promised that if the miners settled, he would appoint a royal commission to hear their grievances. In all likelihood, he added, the commission would recommend an increase...
Nothing the oil executives have said or done has softened the hostility on Capitol Hill and the Senate hearing produced many sharp clashes. Jackson, who is campaigning hard for the Democratic presidential nomination, took advantage of the inept performance of Exxon Vice President Roy A. Baze. When Baze could not recall the size of Exxon's 1972 dividends, Jackson snapped: "I guess we're going to have to start slapping subpoenas on some of you." Then, in a grandstand play, Jackson phoned a stockbroker and announced that the dividend was $3.80 a share...
...government's cause was not helped by Patrick Jenkins, an energy minister, who declared that Britons should not turn on the lights when brushing their teeth since this function could easily be performed in the dark. In an inept demonstration of his point, Jenkins posed for the Daily Telegraph shaving by candlelight - using an electric razor...
...evidence. Burger naturally assumed that the case would hinge on a disputed fingerprint. To his consternation, he eventually discovered that the fingerprint was not in question at all; the defense accepted it. Not for the first or last time, Burger had been victimized by a familiar courtroom figure: the inept trial attorney...
When such weighty concerns as inept trial lawyers are not on his mind, Chief Justice Burger can get his pique up about remarkably picayune matters. Lately he and some fellow Justices have been smoldering about the attire of attorneys appearing before the Supreme Court...