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However, at the request of the woman involved. Local 26 has dropped a grievance in arbitration it had tiled when an employee was selected for a Quiney house cook's job instead of Food Service employee Patricia N. Diblasi...
...absolutely first-rate judge of horseflesh." Among the stallions trotted out for her at Spendthrift were two Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew and Affirmed. At Claiborne Farm she met the third living Triple Crown horse, Secretariat, before a groom brought out a retired stud at the Queen's request: the legendary Round Table, who was born to a horse bred at the royals' farm, Sandringham Stud...
...military role there. Meanwhile, Panama has forced the United States to shut down its School of the Americas, training ground for thousands of Latin American soldiers. And in Costa Rica, the fragile democracy is chafing under Washington's efforts to militarize the country, and it refused a recent U.S. request to extend an airstrip near its border with Nicaragua...
Apparently feeling that his long ordeal was about over, Donovan struck a defiant note two weeks ago after a four-hour grilling before a grand jury in The Bronx in New York City. The jurors had been looking into Schiavone's subway work at the request of Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola, a four-term Democrat. Donovan claimed that the jury was doing nothing more than "a rehash" of "the baseless allegations" that Silverman had investigated. It was all "a witch hunt," he said. The Labor Secretary said he had hired independent experts to give him lie-detector tests...
...EASY for the College to arrange housing for 6000 undergraduates. Each year students take time off, others return, many request inter-House transfers, and off-campus students want to enter the Houses. Administrators maintain that they can do little in the short run to alleviate the crunch, because there is only so much flexibility in they system. They've got a point. And that's precisely the problem...