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Near midnight the Kennedys headed upstairs. Kennedy, coatless, sat on a stiff couch with his feet up on a coffee table. He looked boyish, lonely, far from being a world leader. Yet there was a sense of events rushing...
...allowed the Democrats to remind voters that they are the party of the workingman. Their strategy: separate the trade bill (which both business and labor want) from the plant- closing provision, virtually daring Republicans to vote against the latter. Chortled a Democratic aide: "We win either way. The working stiff gets his notification, or we have one hell of an issue right through to November...
...make money on the side is to raise their salaries. Perhaps, but their pay has been raised in the past with no noticeable improvement in ethics. Serving in Congress is a choice freely made, an honor partly its own reward. What has not been tried is sound rules with stiff penalties, but that is because Congress sets its own standards...
BORN with a sense of ease that comes with life in the plains, Haupt would be the most laid-back opponent Mike Tyson would ever face. None of this British stiff-upper-lip business for Haupt. And while he hasn't laced up the gloves since his hight school days, Dan Haupt of Overland Park, Kansas, has the kind of attitude that bespeaks confidence. Something Michael Spinks lost for a span of 91 seconds...
Since the introduction of VDTs in the 1960s, there have been worker complaints of eyestrain, headaches, stiff necks and sore wrists. A California city worker says that after entering data into a VDT for six months, seven hours a shift, she developed migraines, temporary blindness and shoulder pains. "A lot of people don't take it seriously," she contends. "They think it's a lot of hypochondriac women complaining all the time. Those are people who don't work with computers all day." Researchers believe that some of the visual problems stem from too much glare on the screen, which...