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Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Patricia McGovern (D-Lawrence), who will oversee the Senate's budget-cutting drive, has already said new taxes are inevitable...
...parallels to the calamitous early 1980s. Only six years after its fabled turnaround, here was Chrysler embattled again, posting losses on its North American operations for the first time since 1982. Amid persistent auto-industry speculation that Chrysler might be forced to merge with a foreign partner, here was Chairman Lee Iacocca declaring that for the company to survive, it must cut at least $1 billion, or $500 a car, from its overhead. To help meet that goal, the company will lay off 6,300 employees in the coming months...
...same stressful time, Detroit's automakers will be going through a major changing of the guard: all three companies are expected to get new chief executives in the space of two years. Late last week Ford Chairman Donald Petersen, 63, who helped engineer that company's heroic comeback, said he will turn over the posts of chairman and CEO on March 1 to Harold Poling, 64, a vice chairman...
...which made last Tuesday's election returns so much the sweeter. Speaking to the Boston Globe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee Ron Brown called the election results "a slam-dunk for the Democratic Party." He was referring to a series of nationwide party victories--in particular, in Virginia, New York, and New Jersey...
...least one accusation -- that the accident released 1 billion or more curies of radiation, rather than the reported figure of 50 million to 80 million -- is denied by the authorities. Says Nikolai Steinberg, former chief engineer of the Chernobyl reactor and now deputy chairman of the State Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Industry: "We're not the only ones who came up with that figure. International scientists were involved as well." U.S. experts support the lower estimate. Nonetheless, Yablokov and other deputies have demanded that the Chernobyl installation, which is still operating, be closed down completely...