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...Transportation opened up in the Reagan Administration, she lobbied for the position and got it. It didn't hurt that the Reagan Administration had recently been assailed for its lack of senior women. As Secretary of Transportation, Dole is credited with two significant advances in auto safety--a brake light nicknamed the Dole light, and air bags--as well as a savvy p.r. campaign in which she billed herself as the "Safety Secretary." (She once greeted employees in the parking lot with a stop sign so that she could check if they were wearing their seat belts.) The little brake...
...matters slowed after that. One brake on the strategy was Elizabeth Dole. At the outset she was concerned that her husband would be diminished without the mantle of majority leader and that he would be forsaking the limelight of the Senate for the uncertainties of private citizenship. But she was coaxed onto the bandwagon...
...missed turns on the familiar bus route to school. The driver had apparently had a seizure. Suddenly the vehicle careened off the main road. Amid the hysterical screams, Waldron calmly walked to the front of the bus, pulled the driver's foot off the accelerator and pushed the brake with his hand--bringing the bus to rest in a field and his classmates to safety. He then called for help on a CB. "I believe that it was God who put the thoughts into my head." DAVID BRISTOW, 33; RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA; attorney When the three-strikes...
DAYTON, Ohio: Workers from two GM brake plants voted to accept management's offer, bringinging to an end an 18-day strike that had crippled the world's largest automaker. The vote was nearly unanimous, with 99 percent of the strikers voting in favor of the pact. The walkout had forced GM to close 26 of its 29 North American assembly plants and 18 parts plants. In all, 177,375 GM workers were furloughed. The main issue in dispute was outsourcing -- the production of parts by outside companies. The union claimed that practice will cost jobs. The company argued that...
DAYTON, OHIO: Officials for the United Auto Workers announced that an agreement has been reached between the union and General Motors. The 2,700 workers at two brake plants here will vote Friday morning on whether to ratify the agreement, which has the endorsement of union negotiators. The two sides have met daily since last Friday in an effort to end the strike that idled more than 160,000 GM workers. The main issue in dispute was outsourcing -- the production of parts by outside companies. Financial analysts say that GM must outsource more or face a long- term competitive disadvantage...