Word: co
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company hardest hit is the Hyundai conglomerate (estimated 1987 revenues: $23 billion). Trouble started in early May, when a labor leader at the Hyundai Construction Co. was kidnaped in Seoul. Two company executives were eventually arrested and charged with paying thugs $27,000 to kidnap the man to force him to resign from the company. In the meantime, 3,500 workers, demanding 50% pay hikes, had walked out at two machine-tool factories owned by Hyundai Precision and Industry Co. On May 27, strikers at one of the plants seized a five-story office building and took Hyundai Precision Chairman...
...Bird, a co-captain on the Harvard men's swimming team, was not blessed with extraordinary size or strength, but his pool prowess enabled him to overcome those setbacks and become an Eastern champion...
During Bird's career at Harvard, not everything went smoothly. He had trouble adjusting to the college format and specializing in a few events rather than swimming them all. But even then nobody questioned his drive or his dedication, quality that earned him a co-captain's spot this season over more-talented teammates...
...probably the most fitting award, the one that explains it all, was when Sweeney and Pawloski were named co-MVPs of this year's team...
Walters was the second female Facilities Maintenance worker at Harvard when she was hired in 1979. After Walters was promoted to a supervisory position, she complained to the University that one of her co-workers had threatened her and threw a firecracker at her head...