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Many council members love to wax eloquently about their lifelong "interest in public service," (euphemism for "lifelong interest in politics"). Leaving aside the question of whether those loudest in their auto-martyrology have ever set foot in Phillips Brooks House, some U.C. members do genuinely want to improve the quality of life here...
...opinion of Lech Walesa, the founder of Solidarity who is now President of Poland, could be met only by "printing money." That, says Walesa, would "ruin all our achievements so far." Suchocka's government has resorted to the hard-boiled capitalist expedient of threatening to fire strikers at an auto-parts plant and a coal mine. The threat helped end those strikes, but future relations between labor and management are still problematic...
...DONE IT FOR YEARS. GENERAL ELECTRIC began doing it two weeks ago. Now General Motors is offering its own high-powered credit card to boost sales of its products and grab a share of the $485 billion market for plastic money. The auto giant said holders of its new GM MasterCard would earn 5% rebates on purchases made with the card, up to a maximum of $500 a year or $3,500 over seven years. Card-holders could apply the rebates toward the lease or purchase of new GM cars and trucks -- except for the hot-selling Saturn, which...
...December the Department of Energy announced the closure of the EG&G Mound Applied Technologies nuclear-weapons facility in Miamisburg (pop. 18,000), which employs 1,600 and pumps millions into the community. In January USAir closed most of its hub at Dayton International Airport. Heavy dependence on the auto industry gives residents the jitters: with eight plants employing about 20,000 workers, Montgomery County has the largest concentration of domestic GM jobs outside Michigan...
Generations of Americans, it once seemed, could count not only on death and taxes but also on Sears, Roebuck & Co. Faith in the department-store chain was shaken in June when the California attorney general accused Sears auto-repair centers of performing second-rate or unnecessary work. Sears soon faced 19 class-action suits and the possibility that all of its 72 auto shops in California would be closed. But last week the legendary retailer announced a $15 million settlement, including refunds of $50 and up to auto customers who had counted themselves among Sears' suckers...