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General Motors is also taking a leaf from its profitable European division's book by pruning the company's top-heavy white-collar staff and streamlining - manufacturing operations. GM plans to eliminate 15,000 salaried positions by 1993, or 15% of the white-collar work force. At the same time, GM has assigned more than 100 engineers to the delicate task of improving the company's prickly relations with its army of suppliers...
Media observers say the Times is not moving to appeal to blue-collar tabloid readers; they are of little interest anyway to the kind of upscale advertisers the paper attracts. Instead, it is straining to keep up with the evolving taste of younger readers, who have come of age expecting a lighter, more gossipy style of journalism. This year Frankel hired consulting editor Adam Moss, the former managing editor of Seven Days, a defunct New York weekly that was popular among the yuppie Manhattanites whom the Times must hold as readers. The hope is that Moss...
...Berkeley, ITT's total return to shareholders during Araskog's 12- year tenure has been in the bottom 30% of America's 406 largest companies. Yet over the same period, he notes, Araskog's compensation has rocketed from a level that was 87 times as great as a blue-collar worker's to one that is more than 600 times as much. Asserting that Araskog "is one of the most overpaid CEOs in the world," Crystal blamed ITT directors for having "wasted the company's assets to a flagrant degree...
DINOSAURS (ABC, debuting April 26, 8:30 p.m. EDT). Meet the Sinclairs, a blue- collar suburban family with a difference: they're domesticated dinosaurs. From an idea by the late Jim Henson, this live-action sitcom is set in the year 60,000,003 B.C. Any resemblance to our own society is purely intentional...
Thus Tsongas--or his campaign manager, more probably--thinks that the way to play to the traditionally Democratic blue collar workers who've voted Republican in the last three elections is to say Tsongas is an "economic Paul Revere." "Today our economic enemies are our political friends. The war they wage is in the marketplace, not on the battlefield," Tsongas writes. "Overall productivity grew at over 3 percent a year from 1960 to 1973 but has risen by only 1 percent a year since then...