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...drastically cut back on expansion plans. Before the story, they were a booming company." But Towle also notes that ABC may have given too much credence to accounts by union sources of company conditions at a time when the firm was resisting unionization and was facing labor unrest. Towle says that there is an elegant turnabout in the Food Lion argument: "They are saying to ABC, 'You hold us to a retailing standard; we're going to hold you to a journalism standard.' Regardless of the outcome of the trial, this will have wide-ranging impact on investigative journalism...
...times it feels like the University doesn't want to resolve the issue," said Williams, "and sometimes they do want to in order to prevent unrest. The University is beginning to act like Yale...
...Hutu militants have lost their control, there may no longer be any humanitarian crisis in Zaire requiring international military response. That is fortunate for the refugees, but it adds yet another complicating lesson to the evolving textbook on what can be done to provide real help when victims of unrest stir the world's conscience...
...smallest state, but it doesn't lack character. Once a haven for political refugees from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the free spirit survived the Revolution, and Rhode Island was the last of original 13 states to join the new Union. This year's election continues the tradition of political unrest: Claiborne Pell, an Ocean State Senator since 1960, is retiring, and Jack Reed is leaving his House seat as he attempts to succeed Pell. In this Democratic state, the G.O.P. hopes to capitalize on these vacancies, building on their success in 1994, when voters elected a G.O.P. Governor...
...admit publicly. And if the government falls even farther behind this fall and winter with its payroll, aides are concerned about public uprisings. Their nightmare is that both events will happen simultaneously. Speaking to TIME, a Kremlin adviser described the scenario they sought to pre-empt by firing Lebed: unrest breaks out, Yeltsin's failing health disables him, and Lebed declares the President unfit to rule, calling on the military and security structures to help him "induce order" in the country. Nobody, however, except Interior Minister Kulikov seems to take seriously the tale of an imminent Lebed-led mutiny...