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...Alley Cats" is quite possibly theater at its worst. Robinson seems to have lost all the restraint, subtlety of message and clarity of vision which makes "Live Bird" a satisfying drama. The cast of "Alley Cats" is unspeakably poor, except for Robinson himself and drummer Dwight Hart. The whole mess is like a childish scribble obscuring the quality of Robinson's music. One can only hope that Robinson either returns to the more focused, steady approach of "Live Bird" or abandons drama altogether in favor of his music. If "Alley Cats" is any indication, Robinson's career may mimic that...
...Republican candidates except Gramm, Buchanan and Keyes abided by Iowa's request to boycott last night's caucuses. And as a result, Louisiana has received relatively little attention from the media, which has been focusing heavily on Iowa and New Hampshire...
Well, why not? One truck model--Ford's F-Series pickup, the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. last year--sold more units than any of GM's seven divisions except Chevrolet. GM's truck-transmission plant in Toledo, Ohio, has operated every hour of every day for the past five years, and industry experts calculate that if GM could add two more truck plants, it could sell 450,000 more units a year, for an added profit of $3 billion...
...even this year's giddy sales numbers don't exhaust the good news. Cars are so complex and expensive to build these days, in part because of the demands of fuel economy, that there is not much profit left except in the luxury models. Trucks and truckoids, even with the power windows, CD players and pleated leather seats that suburban buyers are asking for, are still simple enough, many with rear-wheel drive and huge, iron power plants outmoded 20 years ago, to return $4,000 to $6,000 in profit per vehicle. And so far, buyers have absorbed sizable...
Most workers, especially in the private sector, have no such protections. Unless their contract says otherwise, they can be fired "for any reason or no reason"--except when the firing can be shown to be discriminatory on the basis of race, sex or religion. In addition, a few forms of "speech," such as displaying a union logo, are protected by the National Labor Relations Act, and the courts may decide this makes Caterpillar's crackdown illegal. But the general assumption is, any expansion of workers' rights would infringe on the apparently far more precious right of the employer to fire...