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Even as Charles seemed to regain his footing, with successful foreign trips, there came reports that the princess was falling apart. Diana grew suddenly allergic to the cameras that follow her everywhere. "You make my life hell," she yelled at a photographer who ambushed her outside a London movie theater. She spent more and more nights alone at Kensington Palace, watching TV. There were reports that she was once again suffering from bulimia. Last month she left a royal charity gala in tears: "a migraine" was the official explanation...
Perhaps so, but labor knows it will be tough to regain anything like its former clout. Union membership has shrunk from a high of 35% of the workplace in 1945 to 22% in 1980 to only 16% today; corporate downsizing exacerbates the trend. In bleakly familiar fashion, Philip Morris and NCR said last week they would shed a total of 21,500 jobs in the next few years. Such cutbacks have hollowed out the core of American manufacturing, from which labor has traditionally drawn its rank and file. The number of U.S. autoworkers, for example, has shrunk from nearly...
...they want right now is a reason to be optimistic again. All they want is to regain the confidence in which they should be basking...
...tied the game when Mleczko scored again at 5:11 of the second period, assisted by co-captain Joey Alissi and junior defender Winkie Mleczko. The Saints responded with two quick goals, the first coming on the power play at 6:30 and the second at 8:03 to regain the lead...
...drifted off to sleep. What came next seemed to be the only point on which both Bobbitts could agree: Lorena seized a kitchen knife and sliced off John's penis. (It has since been surgically reattached, though it will not be known for some time whether John will regain his full sexual powers...