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...than the year before, they are facing some unpleasant growing pains. Wage costs have doubled in the last 15 years while rates have actually fallen because of competition, especially from pipelines (oil accounts for 16% of Germany's total waterborne tonnage). Traffic is so heavy that barges frequently stack up in jams several miles long behind such bottlenecks as the locks on the Wesel-Datteln Canal, thus delaying the delivery of goods...
...long Labor Day weekend ahead and L.BJ.'s agents all around, the conferees showed no new signs of agreement. The President was not about to give up. "Mr. Rayburn always used to say that there comes a time for every leader when he must shove in his whole stack," mused Lyndon. "Well, I've shoved my whole stack...
...suits that were filed last week against the poll taxes in Alabama, Texas and Virginia; Mississippi, the only other state still requiring a poll tax for state and local elections, had already been slapped with a suit just 25 hours after Lyndon Johnson signed the act. Armed with a stack of memos, Katzenbach spent a full day conferring with his aides as the list of target counties grew from ten to 18 to 24, then shrank again. At first they marked Georgia's Sumter County for action, largely because of the recent demonstrations in Americus. But when fast-moving...
...least partly belying Belli, many judges are still loath to stack all the odds against manufacturers, and the doctrine of strict liability is unlikely to be applied universally to all products. Even so, it is easily the most spectacular development in modern tort law-the most potent new weapon aimed at making business safeguard consumers...
...ordinary Britons, the switch will be far harder. No longer will a husky man weigh 15 stone but merely a pedantic 95.25 kilograms. A future Miss Universe might stack up on the telly at 91-56-89 (centimeters) instead of a somehow more appetizing 36-22-35 (inches). Bert and Alf will have to give up ordering a pint of mild or stout and order 'alf a liter instead, while the missus will have to shop for half a kilo of butter. And who, if he just misses being run down by a lorry, will feel like saying...