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Arthur Scargill, the truculent president of the National Union of Miners, has a different opinion. Scargill believes the state should continue to mine the pits until the store of coal is totally exhausted to avoid firing or relocating miners until absolutely necessary. He claims that a 1974 labor-management agreement on coal policy, approved after a lengthy strike that brought down Edward Heath's Conservative government in that same year, contains no mention of pit closings. (MacGregor and his allies have parried this charge with full page newspaper ads quoting statements by both Scargill and the 1974 report which concede...
...channel will probably pit MTV directly against Ted Turner, another cable pioneer, whose holdings include the Cable News Network and SuperStation WTBS. This week Turner is expected to announce plans for a music channel that would offer pop, rock, rhythm and blues, and country...
...ticket, George Bush will appreciate that he faces a daunting task. Reagan will be running against Walter Mondale, a known political quantity if ever there was one. But after four years of studious self-effacement, Bush will have to do what no major-party candidate has ever done before: pit himself against a female opponent, a brash and buoyant counterpoint to the buttoned-down Texan from Connecticut. "I'm a candidate for an office people used to ignore," he recently told a Knights of Columbus meeting in Denver. "This year it's a little different...
Employers see such plans, which are being increasingly proposed in contract negotiations, as a way of bringing down labor costs without penalizing present workers. Unions say that the plans pit older workers against younger ones, who resent being paid less for the same work, and make older workers afraid that they will be forced out to make room for cheaper labor. But in several cases where employees feared layoffs, plant shutdowns or even bankruptcies, they have accepted such plans, sometimes against the wishes of their unions. Workers at Boeing, American Airlines and Safeway Stores have approved two-tier wage agreements...
...merely painfully impressive. Tenor Placido Domingo is one of the finest of operatic actors, but even his persuasive characterization of Calaf, the unknown prince who overcomes the ice princess's sexual misanthropy, could not disguise the fact that the part lies uncomfortably high for him. In the pit, Conductor Cohn Davis, leading the opera for the first time, delivered a limp, unidiomatic account of the score that reduced its most thrilling moments to polenta...