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...look at the steel and auto industries in the U.S. which are union and at their foreign, non-union competition, you'll see there's a major difference [in efficiency]," he said. But Powers added that the University is trying to be as cost-effective as possible. "I don't think it's just the unions--in the structural trades and the custodial services, many contractors are unionized," he said...
...decade the United Auto Workers has been trying to organize clerical and technical workers in Harvard's Medical Area, a drive which has been two close elections and has been strongly opposed by the University...
...survey of 48 forecasters by Blue Chip Economic Indicators, a Sedona, Ariz., newsletter, produced a consensus prediction that growth would be only 5.7% during the period. Observed Charles Schultze, a chief economist under President Carter: "In hindsight, it is surprising to see the continued strength of housing, the auto industry and business investment in the face of such high interest rates...
...with Debts (Knopf; 266 pages; $13.95), the terrain suits the decade. This story of lower-middle-class yearnings and mid-life crisis has the feeling of - and straddles the sociological distance between - Marty and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. The ground traversed contains the grit of auto biography; Giardina grew up in Waltham, Mass., the setting of the novel. Even the reticence of his characters may reflect home truths: Henna's officemates have Italian surnames, but they scarcely discuss ethnicity. In time with their times, they share his fervor for feeling American. Yet there are hints...
Nonetheless, critics charge that manufacturing still lacks the kind of great innovators who set up the original American system. Harvard's Skinner says that many manufacturers are "housekeepers but not yet architects." More strategic thinking, more top talent and more development, he says, are needed. Detroit auto executives take exception to that. They insist they are no longer second to Japanese manufacturing in any way. "There is no manufacturing gap," says Ford President Donald Petersen. Echoes GM President F James McDonald: "There are no differences in the process. Most of the technology everyone uses was developed here...