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...German manufacturers are already cutting back production. On Oct. 13, Opel workers in the eastern German town of Eisenach will stay home for three weeks as GM Europe tries to adjust to falling demand for its cars. Opel was one of the first western firms to set up shop in Eisenach after the fall of the wall in 1989. The factory, which employs some 1,800 people, now produces GM's popular Corsa model for export around Europe and beyond. The town (population 40,000) has also become home to suppliers such as component maker Bosch, machine servicing firm Hormann...
...judge's breaking up a company, or forcing it to share trade secrets with its competitors. But the milder ones--such as stopping a corporation from engaging in certain anticompetitive actions--may even be worse. "You'd have a judge in effect as CEO, micromanaging every decision," warns Jeff Eisenach, president of the conservative Progress & Freedom Foundation. "It's the first step down the slippery slope to government regulation of the computer industry...
...rare arena in which Gates is a legitimate underdog. Sun, Oracle and Netscape--the ABM (Anybody But Microsoft) coalition's holy trinity--have emerged as a potent force with an unlikely assortment of top-drawer allies, from Nader on the left to the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Jeff Eisenach on the free-market right. Senate majority leader Trent Lott is an old college buddy of Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale's. House Speaker Newt Gingrich cooled on Microsoft after a private dinner in 1995 during which he was rebuffed by the notoriously apolitical Gates, who nonetheless knew enough to call...
...dirty secret was that the warring weekends shared much common ground. Said Jeffrey Eisenach, the head of the Progress and Freedom Foundation and one of this season's few conservatives at the Renaissance retreat: "On both sides of the ideological split there is a sense of groping for a new vision of where the country is going...
...more than just a verbal commitment, the FEC charges, especially when it came to Gingrich. In its most damaging new allegation, the FEC claims that GOPAC helped Gingrich win his narrow 1990 victory by paying the salaries of consultants like committee staff director Jeffrey Eisenach, who spent as much as two-thirds of his time on "Newt support" projects. The FEC's filing also raises questions about whether Gingrich went to bat for GOPAC benefactors--potentially explosive suggestions of quid pro quos that Democrats have vowed to make the basis of a new complaint against the Speaker before the House...