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...that American autoworkers view their jobs. The 3,263 workers at the plant are divided into only two job classifications -- assembly and maintenance -- compared with as many as 100 in some unionized U.S. factories. This leaves Honda workers free to perform many different functions, as dictated by the ebb and flow of the assembly line. While their $12.25 hourly wage is about $1 below the United Auto Workers average, employees and their families enjoy unusual benefits, including access to the company's gym and pool...
...arrival of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and undisputed holder of the "Mr. Modernism" title, reinvigorated the department, remembers Len Currie (GSD '38). Though "Harvard has always been tops" in the field, Currie says, "in '36 architecture was at a low ebb." Squabbles in the faculty, the departure of the old dean of architecture, and the sad state of American design during the Depression had shaken the school's confidence. Gropius's arrival boosted morale, and Harvard soon rocketed to the to the forefront of international design...
During the '70s, the stream of politically influenced appointments began to ebb. Confident that new laws had reined in the courts' ability to make trouble, the government selected judges on the basis of merit. The newer appointees included younger jurists who had been exposed to the U.S. civil rights movement. Now, says John Dugard, a law professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, "we are seeing a new generation of judges who are concerned with curbing the excesses of the administration and with the upholding of civil liberties...
...talking now about the front porches where neighbors in small towns ebb and flow in the summer twilight, murmuring their joys, worries and loves...
...overall banking industry are growing at an estimated 10% or better annually, and last week four of the major New York City institutions reported robust quarterly earnings. Along with the painful contraction taking place in the steel industry, the regional banking woes are the natural result of the ebb and flow of economic tides. While some players may founder, the system shows no signs of sinking...