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Frustrated advertisers are even more dismayed. This season they had planned to pour a whopping $400 million into commercials for everything from autos to chewing gum. The walkout has already cost these companies millions of dollars worth of irreplaceable exposure and could mean a substantial loss of business...
...World Series is here, the National Football League is not, and people could hardly be enjoying baseball more, or missing the striking football players less. One year after its own walkout, which somehow struck deeper at the heart of games, baseball drew 44,587,873 customers this season, a record by a million. In past years the World Series had to hustle to keep from being upstaged by the league playoffs. But this season the play-offs just hoped to live up to the division races. The unspeakable "split season" of 1981 was put behind for good on one final...
Shultz has become concerned about moves by radical Arab nations to expel Israel from some U.N. agencies. Last month Israel was excluded from the International Atomic Energy Agency, prompting a U.S. walkout. There are signs that similar actions could be taken by other affiliated groups, and even the General Assembly. Shultz made it clear that the U.S. would walk out of, and withhold funds from, any organization that made such a move...
...generation ago, a national rail strike might have paralyzed the country. Last week's walkout, however, was no crippler: both the sluggish economy and the diminishing role of rail transport blunted its impact. In the Northeast, service was relatively unaffected since the region's major line, Conrail, was not struck by the engineers. The Southern and the Family Lines systems, the two major railroads in the South, drafted supervisors and other skilled personnel to operate the trains, and most major runs were made...
...back at work. As he has many times in the past, Bradley emerged from the dustup as a soft-spoken conciliator who knows how to keep the wheels of government turning. His Republican rival, California Attorney General George Deukmejian, promptly accused Bradley's labor allies of arranging the walkout for the mayor's benefit, a charge that a Deukmejian aide later admitted was groundless. The outburst was a measure of the frustration overtaking Deukmejian as Bradley steadily widened his lead in the polls. A survey last week put him 14 points ahead...