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...country lost just 13 working days per 1,000 workers annually because of strikes. In the U.K. the figure was 32, while France lost 87 days and Spain 344. Unions like the powerful IG Metall, which represents workers in manufacturing industries from cars to electronics, agreed to modest wage packages in hopes of creating more jobs. But IG Metall signaled last week that peace has its limits. Germany's largest industrial union took a strike vote in two regions of the country, and companies began gearing up for a walkout. "The employers destroyed the last chance of a peaceful solution...
...went to Britain, where he lived for the rest of the 30s. In a quartet of modest, engaging films, Robeson would sing, act a little, show off his burly torso, flash that intoxicating smile-and, uniquely for a black actor, get top billing above whites. He played African kings, or ordinary Joes who somehow take over tribes, in "King Solomon's Mines," "Sanders of the River," "Song of Freedom," "Jericho"; all tapped into Robeson's natural nobility. As Roland Young says in Solomon, "I always thought that fella had a spot of royal blood...
...That’s what I’m looking for.” Heidi Schork, director of the Boston Youth Fund Mural Crew (BYFMC), loves blank, abandoned walls, which Boston neighborhoods have in abundance. The BYFMC began as a offshoot of the city summer jobs program, with the modest mandate of covering up graffiti on shop fronts in Roxbury. Twelve years and over one hundred murals later, the Crew has expanded into a full-year program combining the goals of urban renewal, after-school program and art school...
...hallmark of a quality baseball team and a potentially devastating rut. A club on a good roll can dispatch opponents with routine efficiency—string hits together consistently, make the necessary plays in the field—until whole stretches of the season disappear into blurs of modest high-fives...
...hopes of raising women's awareness, ASRM launched a modest $60,000 ad campaign last fall, with posters and brochures warning that factors like smoking, weight problems and sexually transmitted infections can all harm fertility. But the furor came with the fourth warning, a picture of a baby bottle shaped like an hourglass: "Advancing age decreases your ability to have children." The physicians viewed this as a public service, given the evidence of widespread confusion about the facts, but the group has come under fire for scaring women with an oversimplified message on a complex subject...