Word: closing
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...planned to close even more plants, but the United Auto Workers prevailed on the Treasury Department to idle three other plants but move them over to the new GM. The company had based its latest round of plant closings on the assumption that U.S. car sales will only reach 10 million now and stay at that level in the future. However, union leaders argued that GM should keep the plants as a hedge against a robust recovery in new vehicle sales, possibly next year or the year after. "We know they're not going to [be at] 10 million units...
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...already aware that in order to begin to bridge the gap in the Harvard College Library budget, we have made the difficult decision to close the Quad Library. Additionally, to save money, Lamont Library will be limiting service to first-year students and to students living in the River Houses. Quad residents are encouraged to make use of the University’s many other libraries, before they are slowly phased out. An additional cost-cutting measure has forced us to convert Widener Library into a student center for graduate students...
...These cuts do not mean, of course, that we are prepared to compromise on accommodations, and students with special dietary needs are strongly encouraged to talk to their Allston Burr Resident Dean about withdrawing from the College. The dining halls in Cabot House, Currier House and Pforzheimer House will close completely. Please keep in mind that these cutbacks have freed up funding for the long overdue replacement of the electronic information display consoles, which will be newly fitted with IMAX 3D displays...
...want to give his surname, works in Moscow as a driver and sends money home to his family in Tskhinvali. He says that the region cannot continue the way it is. "There are no jobs except for construction-repair jobs, and those positions that are available are paid close to nothing," he says. "Young people leave South Ossetia as soon as they turn...