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...such move is liable to trigger harsh union reaction. In response to a relatively mild Kohl proposal for limiting public-sector wage increases, Monika Wulf-Mathies, leader of the country's 1 .2 million-member civil servants union, called the plan a "declaration of war," and threatened strike action if the proposal is carried out. Having long and patiently planned his parliamentary assault on the Chancellor's office, Kohl must now prepare for all the battles that his new job will entail...
Generally considered a free-market economist, Feldstein has criticized supply-side extremists who promised that the 1981 tax cuts would trigger sudden growth in the economy. In practical terms, he is also keenly concerned about the widening size of the federal budget deficit, and favors a cutback in Social Security cost of living increases as a way to combat it. He also suggests that federal policies have diverted too much of the nation's capital into housing, a stance that brought him opposition from the national homebuilders' lobby...
...scene concludes without bloodshed, but its importance becomes clear that night when Sonny in listening to his walkman in bed. The tape stops in the middle, and a satanic voice breaks in: "Why didn't you pull that trigger? Why didn't you shoot that...
After swiftly taking what street pictures he could before Gemayel's trigger-happy supporters arrived, Photographer Frey ducked into an adjacent building to get more pictures from a higher and safer vantage point. Suddenly shots were fired in his direction. Says he: "That was the signal to get my film to some safe place...
...this murky situation, it is hard to say just what the minority law students should do. Holding a boycott seems to play right into the fears of many white students. But on the other hand, students are not by nature in the most effective position to trigger real change on issues like tenure. Short of taking to the streets as in the 1960s, a boycott is one of the few actions students can take to express displeasure with a course offering...