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...National Security Agency will sweep the site for bugs before construction begins later this month. The committee will take the additional precaution of discussing sensitive matters inside a top-secret "bubble," a conference room constructed of steel panels impervious to external listening devices. The human factor has been secured as well: staff members will soon sign a mandatory "nondisclosure oath" promising to stay...
...Stan and Thelma didn't give retirement a shot. For a while there, they practiced what Stan called senile maneuvers. In a little rubber dinghy that moved, Stan said, "like a burnt-assed bunny," they conquered islands. "We take a new island, it falls, and Thelma goes in, in steel helmet and full pack" is the way Stan described it. The act wore thin, apparently, for in that fashion Stan and Thelma Don't Get Around Much Anymore...
...ritual every Sunday night." Hayward's boss, Dolores Shea, who with her husband Tom runs O'Shea's (the O got separated from the family two generations back), offered this blessing: "They've done very well. They don't draw teenagers, but they draw everybody else. We've had steel bands, Dixieland, everything, but the big band is neat, especially our big band. Now just listen to that." They were playing Stella by Starlight...
Since 1982 the Administration has negotiated no fewer than 18 agreements with steel-producing countries that limit exports to the U.S. market. Last year, as the trade hue and cry rose once again on Capitol Hill, the Administration pressured Japan and Taiwan into limiting their exports of machine tools to the U.S. for five years. When West Germany and Switzerland refused to go along with such "voluntary" restraints, Washington set quotas that rolled back their exports to levels set in 1981 and 1985. Also in 1986, the Administration negotiated separate agreements with Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea that...
...resulting report on collective bargainingremained diplomatic. "He had the respect of bothsides; both the management of the steel companiesand the steel union," said Livernash's sonStephen...