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...Times, which actually implicated increased productivity as one of the main reasons for massive downsizing and economic instability. In the first of the seven articles, the paper reports, "The steady and pronounced progress of technology has kept taking tasks from human beings and giving them to machines, undermining the bedrock notion of mass employment." It cites such examples as General Motors, which can make as many cars today with 185,000 fewer employees than in the 1970s. "Behind every A.T.M. flutter the ghost of three human tellers," the Times wrote ominously...
Meanwhile, his own prescription is of uncertain value at best. And even if it did work, it would work at the expense of bedrock Republican values. To raise tariffs, after all, is to raise taxes on international commerce--to impede economic efficiency, thus shielding some workers from the market's invisible hand...
While the authors took pains to portray their 43-page document as a set of talking points binding no one, it was contentious enough to require four years of negotiation. London and Dublin each surrendered some bedrock from their historic stands. The Irish government will move to amend the articles in its constitution that claim jurisdiction over Ulster. Britain will rewrite its laws to permit Northern Ireland's voters to decide whether to remain with Britain or join the Republic of Ireland...
...Harvard women's hockey captains Winkie Mleczko and Diana Clark, who have been the bedrock of the team since they arrived on campus. Or for senior goalkeeper Erin Villiotte, Harvard's all-time shutout leader. Harvard1...
...wells in the 1960s, they thought they would be drinking pure artesian H2O. They were mistaken. Since 1983, more than 100,000 cases of arsenic poisoning have been reported; the consequences range from skin discoloration to cancer--and death. The source of the poison? Apparently chemical changes in the bedrock caused arsenic, a naturally occurring element, to dissolve into the groundwater. The central government recently stepped in with $31 million for research and new, deeper wells. Last week Dipankar Chakraborty, an environmental scientist at Jadavpur University, held a seminar to publicize the mass contamination. Said a worried suburbanite: ``What...