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Coal Board Chairman Ian MacGregor appeared determined to reach a settlement with the miners' union. Yet there was little progress when Scargill met with the Coal Board on Thursday. The union chief continued to insist that the pit closures are not negotiable; the Coal Board said only that it would reframe its plans to streamline the industry...
...mile or two, or step out with the boys; I don't know why that helps, but it does. When bored, see the movie Bringing Up Baby. When in despair, dress to the nines. I often wear a white shirt to work when I want to pit elegance against the fates. You might try that. (Do you own a white shirt?) When glum, call home...
...starts the nitty-gritty; three days the group will stay until about 10:30 discussing a specific topic, such as a company's stock to be bought or sold. Most of the staff, though, enjoys quieter days: researching, meeting with visiting representatives of companies, and occasionally visiting the trading pit to follow the progress of a buying or selling program. While everyone at HMC juggles several projects at once, Cabot says, "everything we do leads up to some kind of decision. Everything is goal-or decision-oriented...
...painted!" Hall cried. His coworkers, members of a U.S.-Guatemalan team that was hoping to unearth an undisturbed Mayan crypt, crowded to the rim of the pit. "We all wept and embraced," recalls Archaeologist George Stuart. "There was such a sense of incredible relief. It had been a gamble, and we'd been building up to that moment...
With his announcement last month, Maazel, 54, became the latest in a long line of conductorial fugitives from Vienna's legendary operatic snake pit. Among the others: Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Herbert von Karajan, all of whom found the Viennese insatiable thirst for intrigue intolerable. But Maazel's departure also marks a new round in a process that seems to have become habitual among international maestros today: they trade top jobs and collect new ones like baseball cards...