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...figures will probably rise even more as some long-quiescent workers rebel against relentless job eliminations. The United Steelworkers of America in April began its first big strike in more than seven years, against Allegheny Ludlum, the nation's largest maker of stainless steel. Main issues: working conditions such as increased overtime and limited vacation schedules. Leslie Fay Cos., a New York City-based dressmaker, last week was hit by its first strike in 40 years. Some 1,800 members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in six states walked out to protest a company plan to move...
Last fall, police and University negotiators had reached in impasse. Associate Director of Labor Relations Carolyn R. Young '76, who is generally regarded as one of Harvard's most relentless negotiators, said at the time she did not understand why negotiations had failed...
...Josh is relentless in his insistence thatreligious ideas be about human beings and berooted in lives," says Held. "After I'm finishedphilosophizing, Josh's next question is always,'yeah, but how do you make that work, how do youbuild that...
...credit, Burton faces up to Bernstein's manipulative and relentless sexual predations without sensationalizing them, as Joan Peyser did in her 1987 biography, Bernstein. But here too he withholds judgments: the spectacle of Bernstein and his daughter Jamie both falling in love nearly simultaneously with the German pianist Justus Frantz surely calls for amplification. The moving finger, though, having writ, moves on -- to the 1973 Norton Lectures at Harvard...
...glowing box in their living room? Are they so afraid of the present that they take refuge in the airiest, least threatening artifacts of their past? Even so-called contemporary movies, like Reality Bites, make iconic references to '70s TV shows. Even so-called original movies have the relentless closeups, the pummeling pace, the insistent underscoring and the audience-prodding reaction shots of old sitcoms...