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John S. Laughlin, assistant to the president of the Massachusetts AFLCIO, said union representatives decided to call off the protest because they had arranged talks between Sheldon Cohen, owner of Out of Town News, and the Newspaper Guild, one of the nine unions involved in the Daily News strike...
...intrusions into their lives. Regulations that lead to the creation of new bureaucracies are not attractive to citizens who are fed up with the inefficiency of government red tape. "People want to be more certain and careful about how their money is spent to clean up the environment," says Sheldon Kamieniecki, an associate professor at the University of Southern California...
...world, used to going your own way and having your own way. Suddenly an accident immobilizes you in bed. There is almost nothing you can do for yourself. All of us have at least briefly tasted the anxiety of this situation, so we can sympathize with romance novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan), flat on his back with two broken legs, a broken arm and multiple cuts and contusions, products of a car accident on a slippery mountain road during a blizzard...
...hides a crueler agenda? Take Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), for example. She seems a typical nursing type -- cheerful and bustling. But there is something, well, menacing about her size, her startling outbursts of bad temper and her excessive enthusiasm for Misery Chastain, heroine of the series of bodice rippers Sheldon has been turning out for years...
...despair: Science has made some progress towards grand unification. In 1967, Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam managed to unify two of the forces, the electromagnetic and the weak, into one "electroweak" force. Together with Harvard's Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon Glashow, the two won the 1979 Nobel Prize for their work...