Word: auto
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...this point we find out that the club doesn’t actually exist. He emerges from a ruined structure that’s simply the site onto which Usher projects his sexual fantasy. So he isn’t actually working for the CIA, just engaging in some auto-erotic pleasure. Some people buy toys. Usher plays with videos. —Ama R. Francis
...Many Democrats still worry that the Treasury plan could prove a preemptive anti-regulatory trap - hardly the first time Bush has pulled off such a gambit. On fuel efficiency standards, Bush and the auto industry insisted on holding out against tough new restrictions until it became clear that the House and Senate could produce a veto-proof majority. At that point, Bush and the industry backed lesser standards, which eventually became law. More recently, Bush intervened in mid-March to soften new anti-ozone regulations after the EPA had concluded that tough new standards were necessary...
...unions would force companies to pay more, but that money has to come from somewhere. Cut profit, and shareholders take the hit. Raise prices, and consumers foot the bill. Cut costs, and companies may be forced to fire the very workers that unions are supposed to protect. The United Auto Workers union, for example, has crippled Detroit automakers with high labor costs. Now, workers are feeling the pain. Chrysler LLC plans to lay off 12,000 workers this year after cutting 13,000 jobs last year. Americans are wary of unions for good reason. After shooing workers into Big Labor?...
...kind of guy you wanted on your side of the table. Savvy, funny, easygoing and biting toward adversaries, Douglas Fraser, president of the United Auto Workers from 1977 to 1983, took on issues ranging from rising health costs to encroaching competition from Japanese carmakers and managed to win the respect of workers and Big Three executives alike. The UAW's deep concessions during the economically challenging years of his tenure angered many. But the Scottish-born labor leader, who got his start as a local leader in the '40s, won more than he lost, including landmark comprehensive health care...
...wrote this must be so sensitive or cool.” It may have even swung too far in the opposite direction where I was almost challenging readers to dislike me and that ended up being very liberating.THC: Some say your race was hidden in your previous auto-biographical work. Do you agree?AT: It wasn’t the fact that I was hiding my own identity so much as choosing not to make that the focus of every creative thing that I did. I was sort of surprised and a little put off at first when I started...