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...next day, Ferdinand's employees held a meeting to discuss the firings and submitted to management a request for collective bargaining, naming Local 26 of the AFL-CIO Hotel Restaurant and Institution Employees and Bartenders Union as their bargaining agent...
Representatives of eight of the European and American banks, acting on behalf of all the Western banks that have made loans to Poland, met last week at a Zurich hotel to discuss the latest Polish loan request. Earlier, six major U.S. banks decided in New York City to deny any additional money for the time being. But after eight hours of talks in Zurich, the bankers broke up, concluding that they had little choice but to let the Polish debt problem drag into the new year...
...options are presented starkly. One sentence sets forth the department's request; another contains the recommendation from the Office of Management and Budget. After hearing the arguments, the man who sits where the buck stops jots his "RR" in a small box next to one of the alternatives, or scribbles in a compromise. The disputes between Cabinet agencies and David Stockman's OMB have reached the Oval Office, where Ronald Reagan must play either Santa or Scrooge. Even as the final legislation implementing his 1982 budget was being rushed through an adjournment-happy Congress last week, the President...
Extensive as they are, Mitterrand's difficulties are early warning signals, not immediate liabilities. The latest polls show confidence in his administration holding steady at 57%. And for all the acrimony over economic policy, a surprising degree of harmony prevails on foreign affairs and defense. Mitterrand's request for $22 billion in military spending, up 3.6% after inflation over last year's level, passed the Senate without dissent this month. It was the upper chamber's first unanimous vote in 30 years. Nonetheless, it is Mitterrand's handling of the economy and of domestic social...
...fronts. Last week a federal district court judge in Cleveland again upheld his own decision that the Mobil takeover would reduce competition among gasoline retailers in the Middle West and should not be permitted. Only a few days earlier, another federal court judge in Columbus denied Mobil's request to stop U.S. Steel's offer for Marathon...