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...recently completed its third major acquisition in two years, buying most of the assets of bankrupt Bethlehem Steel. Ross warns of more wage pressure ahead: "If we don't reform our labor system very soon, we won't have a manufacturing sector to worry about." He is taking aim at work rules that prevent union steelworkers from performing as efficiently as foreign competitors or nonunion rivals at U.S. mini-mills...
...couldn't help being saddened by the article on George W. Bush's second presidential campaign, "Taking Aim at 2004" [NATION, May 5]. For the Bush Administration to "capitalize on the memory of 9/11" by scheduling the G.O.P. Convention to coincide with the anniversary of the tragedy is sickening. I am sure the families who lost loved ones will not appreciate being used to increase Bush's popularity. It is appalling that tens of millions of dollars will be spent on TV campaign ads. With unemployment rising and many Americans unable to feed their families, this is just another indication...
...annual games conference in Los Angeles. You will play a journalist running from booth to booth, trying to avoid being deafened by hundreds of booming sound systems. Replenish your energy meter with $10 hamburgers! Try not to stare at the scantily-clad Booth Babes! Find parking! The ultimate aim will be to play a game for more than five minutes without a company media rep telling you how great it is. If their presence overloads your hype meter, it's game over...
...aim of the proposals this year is to bring to bear on study abroad the same principles that the Core uses for evaluating advanced standing,” Kirby said...
...more feverish scanning of indices, looking for the point of a book. When ideas are treated as ends, they can be deep, dignified and enormous; when they are forced to compete with one another in a crass market-place of ideas, they become scrappy, instrumental and unpalatable. My first aim this summer is to quiet their squabbling and nourish each runt with my mental largesse (owing in no small part to the largesse of the Harvard College Research Program). When the fall comes, the weak and infirm shall have to be weeded out; but in the meantime...