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After decades of neglect, Athens is at last getting some attention. In March a committee of representatives from all major public service ministries met to discuss a plan to unclog the city, make it livable and clean up its environment. A save-Athens ministry, which will soon begin functioning, will propose heavy taxes to discourage in-migration, and a minimum of $5 billion in public spending for Athens alone. The ministry will also have an extensive investment program for rural areas to encourage residents to stay put. A master plan that will move many government offices to the city...
Isaacs had a few ideas about how to save the Star, but he did not want to impose them arbitrarily and risk alienating the wary staff. So he borrowed from a successful participatory management scheme introduced in 1972 at a car-mirror plant in Bolivar, Tenn. Isaacs set up eight committees (there are now eleven) composed of newsroom volunteers and usually a management representative. The committees suggested ways to improve the Star's design, writing, editorials, special sections and allocations of manpower, space and money. A strategy committee considered the paper's overall position in the market. Says...
...Baby Flo", the inflatable whale balloons, flew above Boston yesterday in honor of Mayor Kevin White's proclaimed "Save the Whale...
...butter, except that the waiter forgot the butter with one of the rolls, and the melted butter accompanying the other was cleverly packaged in a piece of golden tinfoil, making it a greasy chore to unwrap. Don't however, fill up on dry bread; you'll want to save at least a little room for dessert, just so you can order things out of the spinning Frididaire...
...lawyers have been racing around the country filing last-minute appeals. But without broad constitutional arguments, lawyers will have to fight each case on the facts of the crime and technicalities of conviction. A network of local defense lawyers, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is trying to save Evans, has sprung up to help stave off executions, but L.D.F. Lawyer Joel Berger predicts "within a year there will not be enough doctors in the emergency room...