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AlliedSignal, like many FORTUNE 500 companies in the '90s, has added to the unemployment rolls at the same time it has been collecting welfare. Over the past three years, the company has shed thousands of jobs as it acquired other companies. Right now, Allied is making a run at AMP, a Harrisburg, Pa., producer of connectors for computers. If Allied wins, more pink slips are expected...
...religiously attacked the stage, wanting to be close to the man. Moby, sweaty and smiling, took in the apotheosis, finally reprised in "Thousand," the final number of the second encore. As the drum machines raced towards a thousand beats per minute, Moby assumed a crucifixion pose, standing on an amp, stretching out his arms and looking up. The crowd cried for more, but the show was over...
...successful rock and hard-core hip-hop. Last year the major music labels fought a bidding war to sign the band. Madonna's Maverick won with a contract worth a reported $5 million. When, earlier this year, MTV announced its intention to program more electronica and started a show, Amp, to promote the genre, the Prodigy, thanks to its anthemic song, Firestarter, became the techno band of the moment...
While lecturing in Literature and Arts C-37: "The Bible and It's Interpreters," Professor of Comparitive Literature James L. Kugel was interrupted by multiple fire alarms, which had the unpleasant side effect of cutting off the P.A. system in the theater. Luckily an old portable amp was brought out and the lecture continued. Later Kugel explained why events like this don't faze him anymore...
Last week, for example, AMP Inc., a maker of connectors for computers, announced 1,000 layoffs, and enginemaker Pratt & Whitney seemed poised to top that. More than 475,000 layoffs were announced last year, according to Challenger. This helps account for statistical crosscurrents like reports last week from the Labor Department that the economy created 262,000 new jobs in December even as one measure of new unemployment insurance claims hit a five-month high...