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...company it will bargain with first. The contract covering 400,000 autoworkers at the Big Three manufacturers expires this Saturday. The U.A.W. always zeroes in on one company in divide-and-conquer fashion, but in a break with four decades of tradition, the union has toned down its normally strident rhetoric and declined to set a strike deadline. Industry watchers expect the U.A.W. and Ford to coast home with a contract next week, which will set the pattern for subsequent talks at Chrysler and General Motors...
...Hillary Clinton were to have another baby in her late 40s, as I did, would she severely reduce her responsibilities as First Lady? I quit being an attorney to enjoy my treasure fully. Would Clinton send a message to women led astray by strident feminists that it is O.K. to be "just a mom" for at least part of your life? And would she experience the delightful relief of leaving the stressful workaday (or political) world for the truly enriching and rewarding world of motherhood? Go for it, Hillary, and good luck! BONNIE PACKER Palo Alto, California Via E-mail...
...point that "first-year" might sound a little awkward, and that there might be a better substitute to the offending word. Or maybe "freshman" is just one of those words in the "who would want to be one anyway?" category--like "garbageman" and "hitman"--that even the most strident p.c. advocates are content to leave alone...
ECONOMISTS AND CORPORATE EXECUTIVES ARE NOT USUALLY thought of as disciples of Dr. Victor Frankenstein. But they too have created a monster, and it has suddenly found a voice--not Boris Karloff's this time, but Pat Buchanan's. In his strident demands for trade protection can be heard the long-mute anger of workers who feel both injured and insulted by free traders in the academy, business and politics: injured by the loss of jobs and income to foreign competition; insulted because too many free traders have airily dismissed their pain as either illusory or inconsequential...
...these were his people, the sheep of his pasture, and if he ever hoped for an inspiring moment, this was as good a chance as any. But all night his staff had fought over what he should say. The first draft, largely written by Mari Maseng Will, was too strident, too mean, "too much red meat." He called in a Senate staff member to rewrite . and rewrite. When he rose to address the Concord audience gathered in the historic hall of the state capitol, he opened his binder, stared at the pages for a moment and looked seasick. He turned...