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...serious one has gone unnoticed at our back door. More than half of the employees of the Harvard Cooperative Society signed authorization cards several weeks ago requesting representation by the United Food and Commercial Workers, speaking against serious injustices that they have faced for years. The policies of the shrewd Coop management, the labor situation of the Harvard Square area, and the indifference of students and other customers have allowed an exploitative employment situation at the Coop to persist...
...Salvador's civilian-military regime expressed confidence last week that it had succeeded in repelling the vaunted "final offensive" of the country's revolutionary left. José Napoleon Duarte, the shrewd Christian Democratic politician who heads the junta, attributed the left's setback to its failure to win popular support. Duarte offered amnesty to any guerrillas willing to lay down their arms, pledged to move forward on the junta's promises of social reforms and free elections, and toured the provinces like a glad-handing political campaigner...
...youngest computer con men ever nabbed, had obtained the Telenet phone number, coupled their school terminals to the line, and probably by nothing more than trial and error punched out the right combinations-in this case only five letters and numbers-to link up with the computers. More shrewd guesswork got them the "password" to log onto and operate the machines...
...horse barn by 10 o'clock. He likes to ride for a couple of hours each morning and work in the afternoon. He saddles the horses himself, cleans their hoofs and, in the past, even changed their shoes. He climbed up on Little Man, still spirited and shrewd enough to open gates with its nose. Reagan had ridden the horse's mother in one of his movies, Stallion Road, bought her and later bred her. A practiced hunter and jumper, he now restricts himself to trail riding. He loves the surprises of the changing landscape: trails that suddenly...
Associates say that Donovan, who still has the muscular build of a construction worker, will bring two key skills to the 23,940-employee Labor Department: a strong managerial bent and a shrewd talent for negotiating. And loyalty, says a fellow New Jersey Republican: "You will always know what the President wants done because that's what Ray Donovan will be doing...