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...workers, of course, have suffered losses. Among those who have, the rollbacks may involve nonwage items, ranging from lost vacation time to shrunken health benefits. But a pay reduction remains the unkindest cut. Buffy Mello, 34, a divorced mother of three, dreads the arrival of next March because she is among 950 workers at the USS-POSCO steel mill in Pittsburg, Calif., who will suffer a 4.5% pay reduction at that time. For Mello, a junior-grade electrician, the change will reduce her wages from $14.37 an hour to about $13.73, a difference of $108 a month. Other workers elsewhere...
Sooner or later there comes to every writer the two-thousand, three-thousand, five-thousand word lashing that doesn't just sting for the regulation seventy-two hours but rankles all his life. Zuckerman now had his: to reassure in his quotable storehouse till he died, the unkindest review of all, embedded indelibly (and just about as useful) as "Abou Ben Adhem" and "Annabel Lee," the first two poems he'd had to memorize for a high-school English class...
...year-old bay who won eight of his ten races in 1981 and $1,798,030, to extend his record winnings to $3,022,810. John Henry is not a steel-driving man exactly; he is a gelding, a tragic condition referred to around the backstretch as the unkindest...
Asked Philadelphia Bulletin Editor Craig Ammerman: "Why didn't they simply run a correction?" Added Boston Globe Editorial Page Editor Martin Nolan, "There are two rules in writing editorials: 1) be clear; 2) have a point. This editorial satisfies neither rule." The unkindest cut came from former White House Spokesman Jody Powell, who suggested that the Post should change its editorial page motto from ''An Independent Newspaper" to "Caveat emptor "(Let the buyer beware...
Although no District 65 supporter will admit it, the chance of gaining acceptance may grow dimmer with each campaign. For the core of organizers who have devoted the better part of a decade to winning over Med Area secretaries and technicians, that is the unkindest...