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...1billion Amount of money spent shoring up New Orleans' defenses since Hurricane Katrina...
...intimidation," said Carey. "That's not what the strike is about." UPS started playing hardball with the Teamsters this morning, when Chief executive James Kelly warned that job losses would mount week-by-week if the strikers don't get back to work. But for a company that makes $1billion profit a year, Carey finds it hard to believe that UPS will have to fire workers because of lost business...
...tend to disagree with Reagan's policies on the ERA, abortion, cuts in social services, peace and war, and the environment. In one poll after another, women have shown that they perceive themselves to be hurt more by Reagan's policies than any other group. For example: in 1981, $1billion was cut from the federal aid to dependent children. Most of the 3.7 million families on that program are headed by women. In 1982 and 1983, $5 billion was cut from the federal food stamp program. Women and children are 85% of the recipients. "The feminization of poverty...
...bold move, though, will be consumer reaction to the new Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz. These compacts are competing against General Motors X-cars, the Chevrolet Citation and the Buick Skylark, and Chrysler's K-cars, the Dodge Aries and the Plymouth Reliant. Developed at a cost of $1billion, the Tempo and Topaz were introduced in May. As part of an extravagant rollout, the cars were launched on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Intrepid, docked at a Hudson River pier in New York City. Said Chairman Philip Caldwell: "We're in a fighting mood...
...balance of payments. Last week the Commerce Department released some cheering figures showing that the trade deficit shrank in February to a 22-month low, in part because of a $700 million decline in oil imports from Iran. The OPEC increase, which could cost the economy as much as $1billion a month, will send the deficit bouncing right back up again...