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...decision formally allows for a new unionization election, but members of the Coop's board of directors said yesterday that the management will probably appeal the case to the central NLRS in Washington--a move which could stall proceedings for months...
...vowed to keep talking "until the cows come home," and for five days Jesse Helms, along with a small cadre of other conservatives, did just that. The goal of the Republican Senator from North Carolina: to stall a vote on extending the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But with 78 Senators sponsoring the measure, the filibuster was doomed to fail. So late last week Helms relented, and the Senate overwhelmingly passed the legislation, 85 to 8. The bill will soon be sent to the White House, where Ronald Reagan has promised to sign...
...would be most imprudent to stall on fundamental reform of the Social Security system and trust to these uncertainties. As Boskin puts it, if pessimistic demographic predictions corne true and "we wait until early next century to do something about this, the Social Security deficit could be well over a trillion dollars." Given the moral imperative of providing people who are now working with ample time to adjust their retirement plans to changes in Social Security, the Administration and Congresss should combine action to ease the immediate cash squeeze and budget deficit with long-range reforms, legislated now to take...
Those preparations have taken nearly 16 months-a third of a presidential term. In the meantime, Reagan has changed the acronym from SALT to START, substituting "reduction" for "limitation." His critics were beginning to wonder if the real name of the game was perhaps STALL. But in a speech he took to his alma mater, Eureka College in Illinois, on Sunday-his most comprehensive address on East-West relations since taking office-Reagan finally unveiled his proposal for a new round in negotiations with the Soviet Union. He suggested that the talks begin in June and reiterated his suggestion...
Nobody--not you, not the pre-med who just looked up from his stall in Cabot and realized he won't have a shot at the brain surgery department he's wanted to join since he was nine unless he does better on his Organic final than 90 percent of the class, not the Social Studies jock who won't graduate summa unless she gets a flat A on the exam in the Astronomy course she still hasn't bought the books for because she spent the entire term writing about underdeveloped nations perceptions of Max Weber, not the Porcellian...