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...director would probably like you to think that the State Building plays a role in this film similar to that played by Mount Rushmore in Hitchcock's North by Northwest or the Royal Albert Hall in The Man Who Knew Too Much. If not up to that highest caliber of architectural film settings, the glass dome does provide a nice backdrop for the flying bullets, which shatter the ubiquitous glass windows, the bodies, which fall down escalators and the adventurous heros, who scall the walls of the building with mountain-climbing gear galore...
...office, we spend all our time juggling phone calls from CEOs, dealing with problems from hiring to firing," he says. "You've got to change your mind-set quickly from one company to another." Cressey spends his free time on a five-acre suburban spread 40 miles northwest of Chicago with his wife Christy and three children. But even at home, Cressey says, "I'm always thinking about a company's problems. It's an addictive life...
...peak. In Washington, this may sound like just another economic indicator, but back home where Congressmen campaign, the figure means unemployment, and trade has become a hot regional issue. Textile workers in North Carolina, shoe manufacturers in New England and Missouri, steelworkers in the Midwest and lumberjacks in the Northwest have been the most vocal in their complaints. "The perception is out there," said one Republican Congressman, that the "Administration isn't doing enough...
Biologist Stewart Fefer and three colleagues from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had eagerly anticipated their assignment: a trip to Laysan, a 960-acre island about 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu. They were to study some of the 14 million seabirds that nest there, and they looked forward to their stay on what they assumed would be an island paradise with pristine beaches. What they discovered came as a shock. The sands of Laysan were strewed with an unbelievable variety of plastic trash. While doing his bird-watching chores, Fefer cataloged thousands of pellets as well...
While President Reagan was criticizing the House bill as protectionist, he had to make a difficult decision involving a recommendation from the International Trade Commission. Responding to a complaint from the Northwest Independent Forest Manufacturers, the ITC had decided that the U.S. should impose tariffs on imports of Canadian red cedar shakes and shingles because they were damaging American producers of those products. Under U.S. trade law, the White House had until last Saturday to act on the ITC recommendation, and the President chose to slap a 35% tariff on the Canadian shakes and shingles. The levy will be phased...