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...companies need full-scale crises to force changes in their old habits. Ford came back from near bankruptcy in the 1980s by cutting costs and creating teams of workers and managers to design and build new cars. Such teamwork produced the Ford Taurus, which now vies with the Honda Accord for the title of best-selling...
There are still likely to be sour moments ahead. Like the U.S., Canada faces a continuing challenge to its competitiveness, especially as more highly skilled, high-paying jobs are likely to flee south to lower wage levels after ratification of the free-trade accord with Mexico. By the year 2000, said TIME panelist James McNiven, the dean of management at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the number of Canadians working in manufacturing jobs will have dropped from today's 20% of the work force to only 8%. Most other jobs will be in the services area, including such sophisticated...
...Friends groups also have an important role in recruiting. Accord- ing to Ivy League regulations, the Friends'groups--not the athletic department--must fundrecruiting trips...
Yeltsin may talk tough, but he has left the door open for compromise. The government reached an accord, of sorts, last week with the Civic Union, the opposition group representing the interests of powerful Russian industrialists. Yeltsin agreed to restore some state controls over the economy during the transition to a free market. In another move aimed at defusing political tensions, Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Poltoranin, an archenemy of the hard-liners, stepped down. He wanted, he said, "to protect the President from mounting attacks from an opposition bent on revenge...
...American white wine not provided such a clear market alternative to imports, the stalemate might have disintegrated into a costly battle of tariffs. Though French President Francois Mitterrand, who must still face his nation's angry farmers, may balk at the agreement, U.S. President George Bush hailed the accord as a "breakthrough" that would bring a "comprehensive, global and balanced agreement" on trade that much closer for the 108 nations participating in GATT's Geneva negotiations. The Americans have cause to celebrate, perhaps with a glass of California Chardonnay...