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While agency staffers say the changes would bring no reduction in safety, the United Mine Workers union is staunchly opposed. Making use of a one-day so-called memorial period that is provided in their contracts, as many as 5,000 miners last week attended hearings in Birmingham, one of six coal- country sites where the proposals will be debated...
...October 19, the stock market dropped more than 500 points, the largest one-day drop in Wall Street's history. The chief actors in that demise were small computers, automatically selling and buying, buying and selling, huge blocks of shares. Without any human making any particular decision, machines followed a logic of their...
...poor showing of Roh's party to overconfidence and its habit of fielding candidates on the basis of party standing rather than electability. The cloud of uncertainty produced by the election caused panic on the South Korean stock market, which plunged nearly 26 points, to 618.73, its largest one-day drop ever. But many South Koreans seemed pleased at the prospect of at last having a counterbalance to one-party rule. Said Han Sung Joo, a political science professor at Seoul's Korea University: "The government will just have to make the necessary concessions." One thing seemed sure to change...
Despite the studio's roaring return, Disney's theme parks still constitute the bulk of the company's business: 62% of sales and 70% of operating earnings during fiscal 1987. One reason is that the company has raised ticket fees dramatically over the past four years, sending the cost of one-day passes for adults from $18 to $28 at Florida's Disney World and from $14 to $21.50 at California's Disneyland. Attendance boomed anyway, pushing revenues...
...four out of five potential January study hours pouring over the contents of the course catalogue, picking out an ideal spring schedule. A couple of friends and I worked out a system in which we only take Tuesday and Thursday classes--which grants us guaranteed four-day weekends and one-day "holidays" to break up each work week. All this effort was devoted to a future me who would--theoretically--lounge around campus all April long before final termpapers or last-minute cramming...