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...urban planners, to create endless residential communities that still relied on Downtown for everything they needed. And the naive 80's hope that a "Big Project" Downtown would bring people back was a disaster. Riddled with corruption, ideas like Detroit's Renaissance Center turned out more like Flint's Auto World than Boston's Faneuil Hall...
...insurer from a state market, Allstate said it was dropping out of the property-and-casualty business in New Jersey. The insurer argued that excessive regulation had held down premiums despite the rising cost of paying claims. As a result, Allstate said, it lost $72 million on New Jersey auto policies last year...
Shipping, airline flights and even auto manufacturing in some places were halted. An additional 46,000 PSAC employees deemed essential -- and barred from striking -- "worked to rule" in places like customs checkpoints, where backups ranged up to 12 hours. Mulroney's newest sally is a bill that Parliament debates this week. Besides a no-strike provision for PSAC employees, the hardball legislation would effectively ban collective bargaining for two years for workers in a far broader range of government- related jobs. While the battle rages, the Ottawa exchequer is saving $7 million a day in strikers' salaries...
...most of the romantic stuff is pretty dull. Much livelier -- and full of slapstick -- are chapters devoted to disaster: the hurricane that demolished her home; the auto accident that fractured her ankle. And there is one hysterical vision of a day spent weeding with David Lean. "It's absolutely no use," says Lean, "unless you get the root...
...cozy symbiosis with the industry: working designers, such as Geza Loczi, who heads Volvo's studio in Camarillo, train students like Michael Ma, 26, a Vietnamese refugee who graduated this August and went directly to work for the Mercedes studio in Irvine. Ten of the 18 Southern California auto-design studios are run by Art Center alumni, and their staffs are dominated by fellow graduates, including Mazda's Mark Jordan...