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...Thrust among them is a fictional couple, both, fittingly enough, students of social anthropology. Allan Archibald, a moneyed North Shore Wasp, witnesses the murder of the reporter and on a bet undertakes to write a scholarly paper about the Chicago underworld. Irena Giron, a brilliant but unworldly girl from the Polish ghetto "back of the yards," catastrophically encourages Allan to learn more about the style and ferocity of the syndicate. Organized Crimes is part political satire, part informal history, part rumination on the Depression, part love story between the rich boy poor in spirit and the poor girl rich...
...perhaps no one has shown more confidence than Anna Collins. The junior co-captain, thrust into an early leadership role because of an injury to senior Co-Captain Wendy Joseph, has been nothing short of spectacular...
Gardner then slowed the rotation and, much as in the first retrieval, maneuvered the stray toward the arm. There, in a foot restraint, Allen waited to grab the antenna on Westar with his right hand, while his left gripped the antenna support. Gardner cut loose, thrust over to the bay, stored his pack and tethered himself to the cargo bay. Meantime, Fisher gingerly began to reel in Allen and the satellite until Gardner could reach up to remove the stinger. He could then proceed directly to the remaining berthing steps. The only newly tricky part was in keeping the second...
...camera that journalistic integrity required them to report promptly whatever they knew about election trends. "If we have the information, we should put it on the air," said Lane Venardos, executive producer of the CBS Evening News. Yet exit polls, perhaps as much as debates and campaign commercials, have thrust TV into the political process. NBC'S early call in 1980 was said to have discouraged voting and thus affected the outcome of close races on the West Coast. This year a House subcommittee grilled TV executives about the practice, and both the House and the Senate passed nonbinding...
Although wage increases were not the major thrust of the strike, the contract guarantees a 2 percent minimum wage increase for non gratuity workers--bartenders and cooks--after three years of employment...