Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business letter thanking the manager fro her hospitality, was crumpled and dirty and Sedaris had scrawled an apology in pencil below the text: "I wrote this months ago but just found it in my drawer yesterday. Waaaa!" The letter described New York City in the summer as a trash dump with boutiques and was signed "Love, David Sedaris." Even though the letter wasn't for me, I was charmed. I resolved to read his book...
...White House isn't impressed with hints from Haiti's military that it would dump its leader if the U.S. would back off from invasion. A tentative offer from senior Haitian military officers would have sacrificed their capo, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, if the U.S. dropped demands for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide--and eased a trade embargo that's only now beginning to squeeze the ruling elite. But today, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said the U.S. was still pushing for a United Nations resolution to "remove the dictators by any means necessary." Meanwhile...
Once one of the most respected powers on Wall Street, the brokerage firm Kidder Peabody, went through a management shake-up today in a bid to regain some of its lost reputation. Kidder owner General Electric was rumored to be pondering whether to dump the poorly performing financial house, especially in light of recent allegations that the company's leading bonds trader had dramatically inflated actual profits. GE seems more committed than ever: along with the management shuffle, it recently sunk an additional $200 million into the enterprise...
...look a good deal less benevolent. After Armco Steel announced a stock offering that included $45 million to be sold to key managers on generous terms, while leaving health and benefit plans unfunded to the tune of $1 billion, workers at the Middleton, Ohio, mill demanded an election to dump a 50-year-old company association and replace it with a United Steelworkers local. The election was held in May, and the USW seemed to win, though nobody actually knows yet: the company got the NLRB to issue an injunction impounding the ballots...
Health care costs are, as we both know, rising faster than inflation; these costs are beyond the control of labor and management alike and are a source of worry to everyone. To suggest, however, that a wealthy institution like the Harvard Club must dump the burden of medical costs on its workers is preposterous. The Club is healthy financially, and increased its membership last year. There is no reason to demand a wage freeze, cut in benefits or other concessionary provisions in a new contract...