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Costello is the human face of a dramatically changed industry. With about 30 steel firms operating under bankruptcy protection, the steelworkers' union has willingly taken part in a vast restructuring of pay and benefits spearheaded by New York City investor Wilbur Ross. His International Steel Group (ISG) recently completed its third major acquisition in two years, buying most of the assets of bankrupt Bethlehem Steel. Ross warns of more wage pressure ahead: "If we don't reform our labor system very soon, we won't have a manufacturing sector to worry about." He is taking aim at work rules that...
...Harvard College should be to produce the next generation of university professors or that our curriculum and pedagogy should be designed in service of that end.” Those sentiments have formed the foundations of Harvard’s admissions policies at least since the 1964 report by Wilbur J. Bender, then outgoing Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, which advocated taking “individuals with a wide range of talents, interests, personal qualities and circumstances and career goals” as well as very top high school students whose academic brilliance often, if not always, went hand...
...yard IM, Evans complemented her performance in the 200-yard butterfly with another second-place finish, touching the wall in 4:20.46, just 0.26 seconds out of first. Junior Katie Wilbur finished eighth...
...start, Tracy (Marissa Jaret Winokur) is trapped at home, watching "The Corky Collins Show" with her friend Penny Pingleton (Kerry Butler). Fat Mama Edna (Fierstein) wants to be alone in her misery; she growls to Penny, "Go tell your mother she wants you." Edna is married to medium-size Wilbur (Dick Latessa), who runs the local joke shop; his ambition is to "keep the air from leaking out of my sofa-size Whoopee Cushion." The goal Edna mentions has the same working-class practicality about it: she wants to "find a way to get blood out of car upholstery...
...month Negro Day on Corky's show and runs a record store on the dark side of town. The two nice white chicks love the cluttered store's music, its warmth and perceived danger. (Tracy: "This is so Afro-tastic!") In two shakes, Link shows up, and Edna and Wilbur. The place is crawling with Caucasians! A black girl mutters, "If we get any more white people in here, it'll be a suburb...