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...budget-balancing should be the only issue on its agenda. Congressmen, too, though opposed to the whole idea of a convention, would obviously prefer one with narrow authority. In fact, the dire warnings against a convention run wild come only from opponents who are using them as a scare tactic; convention supporters seem perfectly willing to limit themselves...
...output by 3% while simultaneously reducing inflation to under 5% by 1982. The government, the unions and management are supposed to achieve this by conducting a joint annual review of economic conditions to help keep wage settlements within realistic bounds. The concordat would do little to curb the union tactic that galls Britons most: secondary picketing. This is what the country's 80,000 striking truck drivers used to shut down factories all over the country while they negotiated their guideline-busting 21% pay hike last month. Though a recent poll showed that 89% of the public (including...
...clearly a tactic to keep the students in class if we're fired," Bradford said. "The students have been publicly told to keep their heads down and do their work until all of this blows over," he added...
...Judge Jon O. Newman, who presided over the SCM Corp.'s $1.5 billion antitrust suit against Xerox. Pretrial discovery took 3½ years ("Not bad, considering," says Newman), during which the judge had to write 46 separate opinions on procedural motions alone; such motions can be another delaying tactic that, in the words of Miller, is "limited only by a lawyer's demonic imagination." When the case got to trial, each side estimated it would take three or four months to present their cases. But after three months, SCM was nowhere near finished, so Newman set a time...
...results are mixed, with the elder Wallachs emerging most successfully. There will doubtless be some who will now find the passivity of the survival tactic Anne Frank's father imposed on his family less than heroic, but as Mr. Frank, Eli Wallach communicates the virtue of kindly patience. He makes one feel that for a gently reared bourgeois family headed by such a man, his claustrophobic choice offered the best, most reasonable hope of enduring the Holocaust. Anne Jackson brings spirited understanding to the role of a woman caught in the primal conflict between mother and adolescent daughter under...