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...restricting entry by younger workers. Roughly two-thirds of all dockworkers are now over 40. Their whole system of payment is geared to heavy wages for overtime and much lower pay for normal hours. By "welting"--taking shifts at the local pub on company time--workers are able to prolong work until the weekend when they will receive higher rates. Some companies are so "dispirited" by these costly delays, says Sir William McFalzean, chairman of the British National Exports Council, "that they give up the struggle in export markets...
...provinces. Withdrawal will thus simply change the battlefield. Most of Thailand is loyal and committed to freedom in the Western sense; but one province has always been separatist and will provide the basis for an attack which the Thai people do not want. But it does no good to prolong the agony in Vietnam if we do nothing to strengthen Thailand...
Northeastern's goalle Thornton also played a brilliant game, kicking away 47 shots to prolong the game to three over-time sessions...
There are, to be sure, many cases in which it would do no good to have the family stage a death watch because the patient is in a coma. And such cases are becoming vastly more numerous now that medical science has learned to prolong the body's life, or at least some signs of life, long after the mind has become irreparably clouded. But Dr. Vanden Bergh says that he, and most doctors, have seen many patients who were not only conscious but alert right up to the end. Even with a patient who is technically comatose, there...
Regardless of its outcome the appeal will certainly further prolong the enforced visit in Poland of the 26-year-old Cambridge resident. Field has already spent five weeks in Poland...