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Both sides in the New York brouhaha have budged barely a pica from their original position since negotiations began last March, and a federal mediator last week became so discouraged at the lack of progress that he suspended talks indefinitely. Few readers are willing to wager how long the dispute will last, though the City News is offering a $1,000 prize for the guess that proves most accurate. The three struck dailies are losing about $1.6 million a day in advertising and circulation revenues these slow summer weeks. One popular theory is that the papers may soften their demands...
...than the current status quo. The institutional link would still exist, ready to be taken seriously when conditions warranted it. In addition, I reject the cynicism inherent in this objection. I know that some members of any organization privately see it only as a stepping-stone, but I would wager that out of the 85 members of the assembly, those apathetic souls would account for a small minority...
...Socialists have lost their wager on the Union of the Left as well as bungled their attempt to be both a catch-all and a rigorous ideological party. The problems they have stated have to be solved by their opponents, who have failed to do so in the past...
...culture and his deepest beliefs. And it is all the more interesting because Father Thomas O'Neill is not just a little bit like Ireland itself: religious but unwilling to be stereotyped as such, bothered about his past, uncertain of his future, and unwilling to make the final wager in blood to achieve what he has been told all his life he must do, O'Neill is very much the typical Irishman of the modern era. In that sense, it borders on the tragic that Reid did not see fit to give O'Neill to the world without the necessary...
...five years to get potential buyers to choose between a long-range, three-engine plane seating eight across and a shorter range, two-engine model seating six across. Both had supporters, but Boeing was unable to get enough advance orders for either one to make the $2 billion production wager worthwhile...