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...your article on the final game of the World Series [SPORT, Nov. 11], you say the St. Louis Cardinals had feet of porcelain. How unfair to criticize the entire team for the antics of one player, Joaquin Andujar. The Cardinals are a great group of athletes who conducted themselves with class and gave us a full summer of baseball fun. Lu Stephens St. Louis...
...managers, Burr is no remote Mr. Big to his workers. He sits down on a regular basis with all 1,000 of the airline's team leaders, about 20 at a time, in sessions that can run up to eight hours. All the while, Burr gulps coffee from a porcelain mug. "They think my meetings are too long," he says. "I like that. It means we go into detail." Burr first listens to their problems and ideas, but then he asks for the sky and the clouds. Says Burr: "This is a very driven place...
...General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and thus would not have an adverse effect on Canada's other trading partners. Later, Nakasone, speaking in both French and English before the Canadian Parliament, decried what he saw as a rising tide of protectionism. Likening international free trade to "a fragile porcelain doll," the Prime Minister went so far as to concede that Japan should be more open to imports. Officials of both countries later revealed that Tokyo had agreed to work toward the elimination of import tariffs on Canadian computer parts and semiconductors...
...what will happen tomorrow. This may be our best chance to get away." White House Communications Chief Patrick Buchanan and Geneva Arms Negotiator Edward Rowny were chauffeured to a popular gift shop, where they snapped up T shirts, scarves and assorted postcards. The ursine Buchanan also purchased a $300 porcelain polar bear for his wife. At the cash register, Rowny playfully solicited a discount by telling the salesclerk, "We can bargain in Russian." He wound up with 10% off, leading some observers to note wryly that the hard-line U.S. negotiator had settled for less than many White House aides...
...period some 600 years ago. Judging by the Guimet show, which runs until June 6, the technique thrived in the Land of Morning Calm. The museum has turned its exhibition space into a haven of tranquility, with rooms of graceful scrolls and elegant screens as well as antique furniture, porcelain, and writing accessories?more than 150 works in total...