Word: edwardes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fear of a recession, almost endemic in corporate boardrooms, is also restraining new plant construction. Says Edward Irving, senior vice president of United Technologies, an automotive supplier: "Back in 1980 and 1981, we had to shut down 25 plants because of excess capacity in the auto industry. We said to ourselves, 'We're not going to face this again.' " That attitude is to be expected, says Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics: "A reluctance to invest in new capacity is a natural reaction to years of meager profits...
...addition, Kris Rondeau, the director of HUCTW, solicited support from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Jr. '54 (D-Mass.) and his nephew Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.), both of whom agreed to support the union...
Baldwin charged that the hearing was not conducted fairly. He claimed the hearing took place in an atmosphere of "lynch-mob hysteria." He also said the panel's non-voting chairman, Dean of the College Edward Shanahan could not be impartial because Shanahan's direct superior, Dartmouth President James O. Freedman, last week issued a statement condemning the incident...
...Last week rookie police officer Edward Byrne, age 22, died--shot executuion-style in a crack-related crime...
...implications of this situation are too fully revealed in the fate of Edward Byrne. The circumstances of his death fit too well into the scenario depicted by the new report on civil disorders. South Jamaica, Queens-inner city. Poverty, crack-dealing, violent crime, a young man dead. And society is torn a more...