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...week that it may abandon its no-layoffs policy merely formalized what Big Blue has already been doing. Although IBM largely relied on attrition and early-retirement programs to reduce its labor force by 100,000 from a peak of 406,300 workers in 1985, the company began de facto layoffs last year through a new employee- evaluation process that grades workers according to internal goals. Those who haven't measured up have been fired...
Amid the chaos of the currency crisis, it became clear that German political vision is as yet no match for its economic dynamism. Germany is Europe's de facto leader, but will not act the part. As Americans have learned to their constant chagrin, leadership means sacrificing some measure of national interest to the greater alliance interest. Germany knows that its interest rates set the standard for the rest of Europe. By setting its rates ruinously high, Germany was announcing that in fighting domestic inflation it was quite prepared to lead the rest of Europe into recession. The rest...
ALTMAN: We have rationing today, de facto rationing...
...Despite his repeated denials of using a litmus test to choose officials, all the President's top health appointees are pro-life advocates. Among the casualties of Bush's de facto policy is the White House physician, Burton Lee, whose pro-choice views killed his chances of becoming Surgeon General...
...because the Western media publicized those horrors that the Administration belatedly came to the Kurds' rescue. Along with other members of the anti-Saddam coalition, the U.S. has established an umbrella of armed force to safeguard the Iraqi Kurds above the 36th parallel. The area is now a de facto Kurdish state. It has an army and a democratically elected parliament, and it is developing its own laws and taxes. Out of deference to Washington and Ankara, Kurdistan still flies the Iraqi flag, but no officials from Baghdad are allowed...