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...attempt by the national employers' federation, the major unions and the government to negotiate a contract that would have resulted primarily in greater flexibility in hiring requirements as part of a program to ease increasing unemployment. After six months of talks, a proposed agreement was rejected by the union rank and file. As a result, Chevalier expects the jobless rate to rise from 8% to 10% by the end of the year. Said Chevalier: "Maybe France is a country where the capacity to adapt is weaker because every agreement must be negotiated at the highest level and then be applied...
...close to four decades. Son of a Boston railway employee, he attended the city's prestigious Cambridge Latin School and Harvard College. After dropping out of Harvard Law School to join the Marine Corps, he saw action in four South Pacific campaigns in World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He joined Merrill Lynch, then as now the nation's largest brokerage house, as a 27-year-old trainee in 1946; by 35 he had become the youngest partner in the firm's history. The fact that Regan's uncle by marriage happened to be a senior...
Rosovsky, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, also told the Globe that he worries that other minority groups, particularly Blacks, will feel that they have been squeezed out of scholarships, status and class rank by Asian-Americans...
...accused men have been reduced to the rank of private, including the kidnapers' confessed ringleader, Grzegorz Piotrowski, a former captain. Chmielewski supported previous testimony by his co-defendant, Leszek Pekala, that Piotrowski had summoned them to discuss taking "actions to frighten Father Popieluszko." Chmielewski said that after he raised questions about whether the priest, who had a weak heart, could survive such harsh treatment, Piotrowski consulted with his superior, Adam Pietruszka, a former colonel and the fourth man in the dock, about what to do if Popieluszko died. Later, Piotrowski explained that it had taken some time for the colonel...
Wherever Ueberroth spotted security forces, he sought them out to shake hands. There were 29 different police forces involved in the Los Angeles Games, and some believe the security there will rank for years as a model. The key, to Ueberroth, was attitude more than equipment. "The law-enforcement people were so upbeat," he explains, "and that affected everyone." Ueberroth himself had a few scares. One night four men carrying sawed-off | shotguns leaped over the security fence around his house but were caught; their objective was never clear. On another occasion two of Ueberroth's dogs died from poisoned...