Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employees these days, they are expected not only to listen but also to take out their crayons. Last week the firm began distributing, at a cost of $50,000, The Hutton Neighborhood Coloring Book and a box of crayons to its 18,500 workers. The purpose is to boost staff morale, which was battered by Hutton's 1985 guilty plea to a check-overdraft scheme and further bruised by the company's $90 million loss last year...
From Tokyo to Brasilia, leaders dream of building advanced aerial weaponry to swell their arsenals and boost military sales abroad. While thinking big, however, they often give little thought to the ultimate cost. India is investing up to $4 billion to build a lightweight fighter that will become the backbone of its air force in the late 1990s. Japan is debating whether to spend up to $10 billion on its proposed FSX fighter or buy comparable U.S. versions for as little as half the price. France continues to push ahead with its $5.8 billion Rafale fighter even though German, British...
...reconnaissance planes and the L-1011 jetliner while combatting financial crises that culminated in the aircraft maker's near bankruptcy in 1971; of complications following heart and gallbladder surgery; in Marietta, Ga. Haughton resigned in 1976 after revelations of massive overseas payoffs by Lockheed in order to boost aircraft sales...
...will reduce her wages from $14.37 an hour to about $13.73, a difference of $108 a month. Other workers elsewhere are getting raises, but the hikes are not enough to keep up with prices. Some 98,000 production workers in U.S. transportation-equipment industries got an average 2.5% wage boost over the past year, which still trailed inflation about 1 percentage point...
Once it was hailed as the ultimate manufacturing industry, an enterprise that would cut American labor costs, boost productivity and rack up as much as $4 billion in sales by 1990. Blue-chip giants stampeded to buy into the action; bankers panted to finance the heralded expansion. Optimism was seemingly unbounded for the U.S. robotics industry, which produced semi-intelligent machines that were expected to help American businesses compete with low-wage foreign rivals over the next two decades and to improve greatly the quality of American industrial production...