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Calvin Worthington, 65, a Los Angeles auto dealer, wears a cowboy hat in his ads and parades around a car lot with animals ranging from pigs and tigers to hippos and elephants, each of whom he refers to as "my dog Spot." Wayne Greenstein, 32, and Brother Marc, 34, whose family owns Coronet juvenile furniture in Westbury, N.Y., have appeared in commercials since 1980. One of their popular spots features the Greensteins sitting in baby cribs and musing about a "talking orangutan." Customers routinely barge into Coronet demanding to see the TV stars, and trendy Manhattan nightclubs such as Danceteria...
...HUCTW, founded last August after a split with the local chapter of the United Auto Workers Union (UAW), would include Harvard's 3500 clerical and technical workers, 83 percent of whom are women...
...Harvard chapter of the United Auto Workers (UAW), which has led a rival campaign to unionize clerical and technical workers, plans this fall to call its own vote for official status, UAW organizer Barbara Rahke said yesterday...
...last decade of economic dislocation in the industrial North is not the Reaganism of "survival of the fittest." Instead, we should have learned that the whole country has a responsibility to ease the painful process of industrial/regional economic adjustment. The same economic process which left thousands unemployed in the auto and steel industries is now affecting workers in the oil states. Our response to this regional depression shouldn't be joyful declarations of "Christmas in April," but a concerted governmental effort to minimize the short-term impact of falling oil prices--through programs to aid dislocated workers and some form...
...must go." For Detroit, the big question is how the oil-price decline will affect car-buying habits. Most industry experts do not expect a sharp shift toward big cars. They believe that the sticker price of a car, rather than how much it may cost to operate the auto, is what customers now think about most when they enter a showroom. Whatever models consumers choose to buy, they may spend more time behind the wheel because of cheap gas. Economists expect to see an increase in cross-country driving this summer, which will benefit businesses around vacation spots from...