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...ruling affects some 15,500 employees of the state of Washington. Most of them are women who were eligible for comparable-worth salary hikes, plus back pay that could have amounted to $1 billion, under a 1983 decision by Federal District Court Judge Jack Tanner in Tacoma. The latest decision may influence three pending comparable-worth cases in California and New York, involving approximately 96,000 workers. Opponents of comparable worth, which President Reagan once called "a cockamamie idea," were gleeful. "There isn't a single valid court opinion now upholding the concept," said William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General...
...Weldon Tanner, 43, an Atlanta businessman, has been stashing the old Coke in his pantry since April 23, the day Coke announced the change. He often consumes six bottles a day, though, and had reduced his inventory to ten cases by the end of last week. Tanner plans to head north, to small towns in North Carolina, to look for more. "I plan to work the boondocks," he says, "and I'm sure I'll find some there...
...basestealers...Kay had a couple of streaks broken over the weekend. After scoring a run in the team's first eight games, he failed to cross the plate in three of last weekend's league games. His hitting streak lasted a little longer, extending to 11 games before Drew Tanner held him hitless in three at-bats of the Navy nightcap...Mike Fiala, who beat Harvard in the Princeton nightcap, now has a 1.06 ERA. He has appeared in nine games and has three saves to go with his five wins. In 42 1/3 innings, he has struck...
Zonker Harris, tanner extraordinaire in the comic strip Doonesbury, had the right idea, just an outdated approach. To prepare for big tanning competitions like the George Hamilton Cocoa Butter Open, Zonker would spend hours under the sun with an old-fashioned reflector. Today, seekers of the perfect tan have an easier time of it: they simply drop by the neighborhood tanning salon, cozy up to a bank of ultraviolet lamps and emerge looking as if they have just returned from Hawaii. "The ordinary person who can't afford a vacation can get a lasting tan for a fraction...
...rebellion second daughter, and Jeffrey Cooper makes his relatively small role of Motel the Tailor loss one of the most memorable in the show--his transformation from the sky and stammering neighbor boy into the suitor who boldly proclaims his love for Tevye's daughter Tzeitel (Suzanne M.F. Tanner) rings true throughout. The others hold their own during the individual scenes, but fade into the background when Pellegrini and Sabath join them on stage...