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...Wedgwood Benn, the Secretary of State for Industry. His policy, called "Bennery" by his many critics, is to force cash-squeezed companies to accept government control in return for government bailout money. His biggest takeover so far is of British Leyland, the nation's largest auto-and truckmaker (Austin Morris, Rover, Jaguar, Triumph), which could not raise funds for plant modernization. The Labor government has already committed $2.2 billion to Leyland, but the total outlay may exceed $6 billion. The rescue plan, however, does not call for cutting back employment, though overmanning is one of Leyland's chief...
...their ex-husbands' laundry, fearing that they will lose their support money if they refuse; wives who sit quietly while their husbands blame recessionary business slumps directly on them." In one of the many new books on the subject, The Assertive Woman (Impact), Phelps and Co-Teacher Nancy Austin note that women are victims of the "compassion trap"-the need to serve others and provide tenderness and compassion at all times...
...Lucretia Austin Cincinnati
When a federal grand jury and the Senate Watergate committee learned of the gift, Jacobsen said, he and Connally agreed that they would say the money never left Jacobsen's safe-deposit box in an Austin, Texas, bank. In fact, they both testified before the grand jury and the Senate committee that Jacobsen offered the money to Connally for him to dispense to political candidates as he saw fit, but that Connally turned him down-a story that Connally has stuck to throughout. Jacobsen told the court that it was false. Rather, said Jacobsen, Connally gave...
...practice that has brought it under criticism for laxity in policing the industry. Last week a House Commerce Subcommittee heard testimony from Customs and Florida officials about three purported attempts by FEA to stop the Jacksonville grand jury probe so that FEA could pursue a civil case. T. Edward Austin, a state prosecutor in Jacksonville, testified that as recently as last month he had felt that the FEA was trying to "pull me back" from pursuing the grand jury investigation. FEA officials denied these accusations, and General Counsel Robert Montgomery repeated an earlier pledge by his boss Frank Zarb: from...