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These efforts should pave the way to a smoother rapport between the parties, which is key to setting the right tone for future talks. The upcoming contract negotiations are bound to address a number of strong points of contention, from job reclassification to pay scales, and it is unlikely that these pre-negotiation efforts will settle the differences between workers and the administration on these controversial issues...
...brokerage where she works, Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) might catch a male executive's eye for a few priapic seconds. Would she accompany him to his office for some fast dictation? She would not. Tess may chafe at pushing 30, at fetching coffee for dimmer minds with smoother styles, but she will not be used. And now she has a plan. Her new boss is chic Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), who has it all and wants more. Katharine can flirt suavely with clients -- "I'll buy you a drink. Bottle of Cristal? Two straws?" -- and steal ideas from brainy losers...
Anheuser-Busch is encouraged that during the test-marketing of Michelob Dry, word of mouth prompted a strong demand, particularly among women. Some of their capsule comments: "smoother," "very refreshing," "no beer aftertaste." The nation's other big brewers have adopted a wait-and-see attitude about dry beer, mindful that sales of Michelob's other brews (regular, light and dark) have recently fallen off. Ultimately, the fate of the new dries depends on the taste buds of the nation's 129 million beer drinkers, who can be both fickle and brand loyal all at once...
Harvard was quicker on restarts, smoother in the midfield, and played with more intensity than it had since defeating Columbia...
...Iran, in return, would slacken its intense hostility to the West. At best, the release of the hostages could be presented as an almost incidental part of a general Washington-Tehran rapprochement or even as a major concession by the Iranians, agreed to as the inescapable price of smoother relations with the West...