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...Detroit already has laid off 2,000 of its employees and may have to dismiss hundreds more to erase a $17.6 million deficit. When the city asked 8,000 workers to forgo paid vacations and sick leave as an economy measure, said a shop steward, "We told them to shove...
...shop steward of the College dining hall workers union said yesterday that a tentative agreement has been reached between his union and University negotiators, providing for a 50-cent pay raise for all Food Services workers...
Malvolio is the primmest of puritans. He preens before the mirror of his self-approbation. "Holier than thou" drips from every syllable he speaks. He is thus terribly gullible when a trumped-up letter purports to disclose that the lady Olivia, whom he serves as a kind of steward, is desperately in love with him. Bedford purses his lips as if his mouth were pickled in brine. He walks with the gravity of a frozen penguin. His mien alternates between a mask of hauteur and a tickled-pink grin of uncontainable self-adulation. As an actor, he takes the treacherous...
...most of his twelve-year steward ship of Labor, Wilson has tried to straddle the ideological divide within the party and has particularly tried to avoid any kind of confrontation with the trade unions. In recent weeks, however, Britain's grim, almost apocalyptic economic situation (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) has forced him to risk their disfavor. When Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey presented his tightfisted budget in the Commons last month, he candidly blamed Britain's briskly accelerating 25% inflation on union wage-increase settlements, which are now averaging 30% annually...
...viola voice emerges to play, tease, and finally wound in a fumbled attempt at old-boy friendship. Richardson, ever the literary prig, rejects him: "Let us change the subject. For the last time." He commits his soul to his servants, two North London roughnecks with a sheen of airline-steward manners, and slides willingly into no man's land, "which never changes, which never grows older, but which remains forever, icy and silent...