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...homers rather than punts and passes. So far, the new boys of summer have drawn disappointing crowds, suffered tepid television ratings and piled up losses of $80 million in 1984 alone. Meeting in Chicago last week, the owners decided that the only way to play for keeps is to switch to a fall schedule in 1986, even though that means going head to head with the dominant National Football League. Said Donald Trump, owner of the U.S.F.L.'s New Jersey Generals: "If God wanted football to be played in the spring, he wouldn't have created baseball...
...President Reagan opposes new federal regulations, saying that more study is needed. In the Ohio River Valley, where much of the pollution originates before prevailing winds carry it eastward, industry views controls as prohibitively expensive. The high-sulfur coal-mining companies there are worried that restrictions will prompt a switch to low-sulfur coals produced...
Democratic members nonetheless professed amazement at the abrupt switch in tone. "If someone throws you down a well a hundred feet and then they haul you up fifty feet, you feel a lot better," observed Democratic Representative Larry Smith of Florida. "But you never would have been down there in the first place if they hadn't thrown you down." Israel's immediate challenge, however, is at home, not with its neighbors. The country must solve not just the temporary problem of creating a new government but the more lasting one of how to translate its political will...
...union members. Unions took a gamble by endorsing Mondale last fall, well before the presidential primaries. Now that the risk has paid off, unions will be flexing their muscle more visibly. Their challenge: to persuade the 43% of union members who voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 to switch to Mondale...
Kohl makes a quick switch...