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...commensurate with that important role. The union wants a 4 percent pay raise without a cut in existing benefits or seniority pay. The University's negotiator, Sally H. Zeckhauser, appears willing to accept the pay hike, but only in exchange for the union's acceptance of a slash in seniority...
...this desolate region on June 28 was an ominous force. In a few fearsome seconds, it rerouted roads, realigned parking lots and reconfigured the landscape in countless capricious ways, miraculously taking only one life. Rather than rupture a single fault line, it swiped a 70-km (45-mile) diagonal slash through several, at one point heaving up a raw ridge of rock roughly the size and shape of a stegosaurus' spine...
...companies to keep tight control of costs. At the same time, the overbuilding binge that glutted America's skylines with vacant buildings has pushed the construction industry into a depression and helped precipitate a general credit crunch. And the end of the cold war means that defense contractors could slash as many as 900,000 jobs over the next six years...
...like ours, historically isolated, no effort should be spared to board this train. Our well-being and our stability depend on our success in adapting to the construction of Europe." The restructuring of Spain's noncompetitive heavy industry is under way, and parliament has approved Gonzalez's plan to slash state spending and open up financial, transport, telecommunication and oil- distribution markets...
...choices the U.S. confronts. Even before his presentation is over, the returns begin to pour in -- by telephone, fax, computer modem, videophone and two-way interactive cable TV. By morning, the will of the American people is clear: they have decided to cut back on Social Security payments, further slash military spending and raise their own taxes...