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...Motown's local economy has been saved from real damage by a system of auto-industry supplemental unemployment funds that allows most laid-off workers to continue to receive 95% of their base take-home pay; but those funds could run out within six months. Out in suburban Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe, meanwhile, auto executives gloomily ponder the prospect that normally generous year-end bonuses will be painfully thin this year. Says one Ford executive: "If there's no bonus, we'll have to scrape...
...Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...extraordinarily lovely. Elvin Bishop was the lead guitarist in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for years and years and is now on his own. He looks a little like Chico Marx and when he was with Butterfield he held his own playing blues in the same band as Michael Bloomfield, so he's no slouch...
...Stephen D. Roth (who died three weeks ago at the age of 66) approved of that goal, but went even further; he ordered the busing of thousands of Detroit's black students to classes in 53 school systems outside city limits, including such upper-class suburban enclaves as Bloomfield Hills, Grosse Pointe and Birmingham. An appeals court upheld much of the plan, and last fall the state and two threatened suburban school districts appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court...
...they can trim energy use 5% to 10% or even more without spending any money, by such simple measures as reducing lighting, lowering temperatures, ensuring that doors and windows stay shut, leaving unused space unheated, tuning boilers and similar equipment to maximum efficiency, and turning off unused machinery. In Bloomfield, Conn., for example, Connecticut General Insurance Co. has reduced lighting by two-thirds in the executive offices of its sprawling building. Like hundreds of other firms, Connecticut General also has reduced lighting in the cafeteria, hallways and the parking lot, cut down the use of fans and air conditioning...