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...Bozzotto, has been one of those powerful forces--one that refuses to remain quiet. After the union authorized a strike by a 2034 to 112 vote, Bozzotto warned management that if forced to strike, Local 26 would not simply picket the hotels: "We won't be outside on the street" he told The Boston Globe, "we'll be inside, in the hotel lobbies, the dining rooms, the meeting rooms...
Another key reason for the rising interest rates is the federal budget deficit, which is expected to total $137 billion in fiscal 1990. Paul Volcker, the former Fed chairman and now a Wall Street financier, warned a congressional commission last week that unless the Government reduces its huge borrowing needs, "there is the risk of a real financial disturbance. It would bring about the kind of recession that would be the most difficult to handle." One way in which the deficit has triggered higher rates is by undermining foreign confidence in the dollar, which plunged more than 3% against...
...capitalism, the world's top Communist will tour Trump Tower, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and perhaps the New York Stock Exchange. As the Secret Service and New York City police department prepared for Gorbachev's arrival, they were terrified that he would leap from his limousine on Wall Street, on Broadway or along Fifth Avenue to press the flesh, just as he did outside a power-lunch restaurant in Washington a year...
From the opening credits (a police car's siren light cruises down a street, onto the sidewalk, into a house, through a girls' shower room) to the closing crawl (which confides, "In case of tornado, southwest corner of basement"), The Naked Gun is a picture in thrall to its own silliness. Three of the film's perpetrators, the ZAZ team, spoofed '70s disaster epics in Airplane! and spy movies in Top Secret! Now they have stolen from themselves, extending their 1982 TV series Police Squad! to feature length. The stretch marks show, in a plethora of chase scenes and bathroom...
With its shop-lined main street, baseball field and grassy square, Wellsburg, W. Va., is in many ways a typical American town. Perhaps too typical. A survey last spring found that almost 70% of the Wellsburg area's 11,000 residents were at risk for heart disease. "I was just shocked that my cholesterol was that high," says Kitty Weidner, 75, whose reading was 241 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl) of blood. Admits store owner Tom Zurbuch, 46, a former junk- food junkie whose cholesterol level was about 265: "Apparently, we haven't been eating right...