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While chairman Robert Stempel's downsizing scheme was designed to assuage Wall Street, it drew fire from the company's unions and the communities whose futures are now very much in doubt. The most emotionally charged reactions came from Michigan. GM's home base is targeted for half of the first round of 17,000 cutbacks and the closing of an engine plant in Flint and an assembly line in Willow Run in favor of an assembly line in Arlington, Texas. Michigan U.A.W. leaders raised the threat of strikes against further actions. Most industry analysts agree that GM needs...
Green will also help lead and effort to engender Cooperation among the University's ten faculties, an essential feature in the overall academic planning scheme...
Over the past few months, documents concerning the alleged criminal records of police recruits and Scheme Z, a proposed East Cambridge highway interchange, have been reportedly stolen and turned over to the press...
...broad range of economic winners, who then would be helped with tax breaks and investment assistance. Few economists have much faith in the government's ability to predict strong economic performers, and when it comes to health care, even Tsongas agrees. In knocking Bob Kerrey's national health-insurance scheme, Tsongas says, "If anyone thinks the words government and efficiency belong in the same sentence, we have counseling available." There's an inconsistency here, of course, but Tsongas ignores...
Beane recognizes that the time-scheme for all of this will be several years. Thus, after the system is purchased, the Fogg will seek student and faculty input to determine the specific functions that the system would include...