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The strike against the government of Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson had been called over the issue of wage raises for public workers. Even though Hermannsson's coalition government had managed to reduce inflation from 130% to 13% in 17 months, civil servants, long accustomed to raises indexed to soaring...
The heavyset men now climbing into the ring are veterans. Bill Howard, in his 40s, from Milwaukee, is portly, tough and tanned, in maroon robes tied with a golden cord. He shows his anger with a slow, bull-like shaking of the head as he encounters "Cowboy" Scott Casey, in...
Salieri stands to the side during all this, stage-managing Mozart's downfall, then appearing to the fevered young man in his dead father's disguise and commissioning the Requiem. Similarly, the two main actors, chosen from a thousand who auditioned for the roles, must follow different circuits...
Dreben, in general, likens his administrative duties to those of "a glorified clerk." His appearance seems to bear out this characterization. Short and balding at 56 years of age. Dreben sits behind a huge desk in his Emerson Hall office, surrounded by swarms of paper, manuscripts and envelopes--many of...
The basis of the commission's elaborate preparations was a $3.4 million computer system purchased with U.S. funds. Officials programmed the computer with painstaking care, matching the national ID number of every potential Salvadoran voter with 6,598 polling tables at locations around the country. The procedure was considered...