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...already begun to take some measures to clean up its act. A plantwide sensitivity-training program was belatedly established last year. And while managerial jobs have not been affected, the company claims it has fired 10 workers--four this year--for incidents of sexual abuse. Perhaps more important, the alarm bell has finally sounded at the Tokyo headquarters of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Chairman Hirokazu Nakamura admitted that "there were such cases" at the Normal plant but insisted that they were dealt with properly. Nakamura also expressed concern that Americans would draw the wrong conclusions about the cars that continue...
...stage military activities in the DMZ, the situation, to our relief, did not get immediately serious. Although the military leaders of both sides had called for the highest alertness of their armed forces, the international community has not viewed this somewhat routine violation from North Korea with particular alarm, and the United States downplayed the chances of a second Korean War. Let us hope that all of North Korea's reckless provocations were just for the purpose of pressuring the United Nations into holding peace treaty talks, instead of signaling to the world that it's going crazy. What will...
...years ago the tall, restless character who moved into the White House with Franklin Roosevelt was viewed by large portions of the U.S. public with some degree of derision if not alarm. They caricatured her, joked about her, called her 'Eleanor Everywhere.' They couldn't believe that any one woman could sincerely embrace the multiplicity of interests ... Today enough people have met Mrs. Roosevelt, talked with her ... checked up on her, to accept her for what she is: the prodigious niece of prodigious, ubiquitous, omnivorous Roosevelt I. Everything she says, everything she does, is genuinely and transparently motivated. Sophisticates...
Haley Barbour was worried, and he sounded the alarm. The chairman of the Republican Party knew that organized labor was about to launch the most audacious, best-financed attack his party had ever endured. So two Fridays ago, he brought together a dozen of his party's most powerful leaders. The meeting, in a glass-lined conference room in Republican headquarters on Capitol Hill, included top people from the Christian right, the pro-life movement, Big Business and small business. Barbour told the group that he thought the AFL-CIO's campaign on behalf of the Democrats would be worth...
...clock trick seems to be a common gag employed by Harvard students. Bill S. Triant '99 tried to set his roommates' alarm clocks forward an hour, but according to another roommate, F. Edward Boas '99, his plot failed...