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...rock with Mike on it (Douglas, that is), Merv (Griffin), even one with Pat Mitchell (I know who she is but I'm not sure what to call whatever it is that she does). Even Mary Hartman was preserved on stone. The only face missing from Aldo's rock pile is the face behind the marketplace, the senior legislator in Cambridge and current occupant of the mayor's office, the little man's pol, the honorable Alfred E. (for Effort) Vellucci...
...years ago, were members of a radical-activist group called Science for the People (SftP). The point they were trying to make was plain: for most working Americans the tangible results of the billions of dollars they paid out for the space program was nothing but a pile of rocks...
...watch the mad scramble to the white pile in the front of the lecture hall during the opening week of classes, you might guess that the professor was offering his prospective students letters of admission to the Law School. Course reading lists, obviously, are a few steps behind these letters in guaranteeing a seat in a glamorous law firm, but they usually dictate where and how a healthy part of each student's time and money will be spent for a year. It's no surprise that these white mimeographed sheets are some of the hottest items floating around campus...
...second and third years and allowed the union to reopen to press for more. But it provided that disputes over wages and benefits be settled by binding arbitration. One aim was to free the industry from the boom-bust cycle that used to attend union bargaining. Steel users would pile up huge inventories during the talks to carry them through a strike, then cut stockpiles after agreement was reached, sending the mills into a slump. Organization Candidate McBride is willing to keep the no-strike approach, if possible, when contracts are renegotiated next summer. Sadlowski thinks the discarding...
...that, some Western financiers in recent weeks have begun to express discreet concern about Comecon's mounting pile of debt. The Basel-based Bank for International Settlements has noted that the ratio of debts to exports -which determines a country's ability to repay loans-has reached a high level in some Communist countries. Bank of America, Citibank, Chase Manhattan and Manufacturers Hanover all conspicuously took no part in a recent $250 million loan to the Soviet Union's Foreign Trade Bank. Some Western banks are also trying to raise interest rates charged to Communist borrowers. They...