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This is a heavy legislative load, and with elections ahead the temptations will be greater than usual to posture and obstruct, to veto and delay. But if the current Washington gridlock continues, the voters may eventually see to it that incumbents of both parties get a much longer vacation than they wanted...
...battle for Federated. Recalls Jon Levy, chairman of Gillian Group, a leading dress manufacturer: "After a while, it became a contest of wills and ego. Campeau came to feel that it was a game and he had to win the prize." But the price of victory was a debt load that included $2.25 billion of junk bonds that pay as much as 17.75% interest...
...welcome shift. Except for the U.S. air strike on Libya in 1986, American military performance since Viet Nam has been miserable. In 1983 commanders in Lebanon failed to erect defenses to prevent a mere truck from crashing into a Marine barracks and killing 241 American servicemen with a load of explosives. The invasion of Grenada that same year was ultimately successful, but so botched that 18 Americans died even though the island was defended only by a ragtag of Cuban construction workers and Cuban and Grenadian soldiers...
...offset the loss of his All-Ivy sharpshooter,Cormier has looked for a more equal distributionof the offensive load this year, stressing theinside play of 7-ft., 1-in. center Walter Palmer.Palmer, currently hampered by a stress fracture toa vertebrate, leads the team with 16.7 p.p.g...
...Enough has happened that it warrants a look," says Congressman Bates. The San Diego hearing documented an unduly harsh, arbitrary management style. Witnesses told of the police being summoned to a San Diego suburb to settle one of the nearly daily disputes over the load in each carrier's bag. A study showed that 45% of the 837 carrier routes in San Diego require more than an eight-hour shift to complete. Taking time off for surgery or unapproved nose blowing is a punishable act. "There's a rule for everything," testified a San Diego shop steward. "If a supervisor...