Word: 1980s
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...opposed to abortion rights, favors the death penalty and supports a two-year limit on benefits to people on welfare. He has been friends with Clinton, but not always in agreement with him, ever since the two served on the Democratic National Committee's policy commission in the mid- 1980s. In the Idaho race, EchoHawk and his Republican rival have been sparring over who is the more conservative candidate. Batt likes to paint his opponent as a closet liberal and big spender. Says Batt: "When you come down to it, he's a ! Clinton Democrat, I'm a Reagan Republican...
...lawyer representing RSI victims in the IBM and Atex lawsuits. Internal documents uncovered in the suits show that both firms were alerted to the potential danger their keyboards posed years before. ibm began training its own employees in the proper use of computer equipment in the early 1980s, but still does not notify customers about the risks of RSI. Atex, for its part, insists that the claims made by RSI victims are not supported by science...
...rate of unemployment also reflects a sharp decline in the number of new job seekers. Although the labor force grew more than 2% a year in the 1970s and 1980s as the baby boomers entered the market, it is expanding only about 1% today. "It doesn't take a lot of job creation to get to the low unemployment rates that we have right now," Freedman pointed...
While Australian federal police found no such link, they discovered Jouret and Di Mambro had repeatedly visited the country beginning in the mid-1980s. People who met Jouret say he was fascinated by Ayers Rock, the huge monolith sacred to the Aborigines that rises from the desert floor in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. He apparently told acquaintances that the rock's "mystic appeal" had drawn him to Australia and that he had applied to hold a religious service there. The Aborigines, who control access to Ayers Rock, turned him down...
...Caterpillar took a more conventional, and controversial, lean-and-mean approach. In the early 1980s, says Glen Barton, group president for construction and mining machinery, Caterpillar's "costs were out of line with what overseas markets were willing to pay for our products"; the company lost $1.5 billion cutting prices below cost to meet the competition of Japan's Komatsu and other rivals. But Caterpillar has slashed its work force 31% in the past dozen years, and that has lowered costs and raised productivity: from sales of $886,000 per employee to $2.3 million. Losses have turned to profits...