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Dissension erupted among AFL-CIO leaders when President Lane Kirkland announced he will retire on Aug. 1. Despite longtime expectations that deputy Thomas Donahue would inherit the office, an opposition ticket supported by 57% of the federation's membership will challenge...
Legendary AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, whom rivals had pressured for weeks to resign, said he would leave the 13.3-million-member labor federation Aug. 1 -- with a recommendation that his protege, executive secretary Thomas Donahue, succeed him. But powerful dissidents in the flagging organization are not backing his choice. "Handovers like that are dinosaurs," saysTIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "Nobody in the labor movement is in the mood to sleep through this. They want a generational shift." The battle parallels the recent upheaval in the Teamsters union, in which one-time radicals rolled over an outgoing leader...
...thing" is Windows 95, the latest update of a 10-year-old product that Microsoft is scheduled to release on Aug. 24. Windows 95 is Microsoft's bid to rid itself once and for all of its twin albatrosses: the legacy of dos (a primordial system that is starting to annoy even its most loyal users) and the competition from the Macintosh operating system (which continues to make Windows seem clunky by comparison...
...READERS, May 8]. As a historical writer, I was enormously impressed by his highly readable and brilliantly analytical articles on the outbreak and consequences of World War II. I recommend that all thoughtful citizens read his insightful contribution to Time's 50th-anniversary issue on World War II [Aug. 28, 1989] at least twice...
Najarian's celebrated career began to implode on Aug. 13, 1992, when FDA officials marched into the office of University of Minnesota president Nils Hasselmo to announce that the agency had imposed a hold on clinical use of Minnesota ALG. The following month university auditors uncovered evidence suggesting that Condie, director of the ALG program, had been selling a by-product of the production process and pocketing the proceeds. In November the university hired two law firms and accountants Coopers & Lybrand to delve into the ALG program. And in December 1992 the U.S. Attorney's office in Minneapolis launched...