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...chairman Smith's radical cost cutting, which removed 137,000 workers from the payroll, and his $50 billion investment in retooling will eventually pay off for the company. More important, his huge reorganization of the company in the mid-1980s is finally creating some cooperation between GM's far-flung divisions. One major change has taken place in its Automotive Components Group, a $33 billion operation. Because the companies in the group (examples: Harrison Radiator, Packard Electric, Inland Fisher Guide) were captives, there was traditionally no incentive for them to offer competitive prices. GM now insists that its parts makers...
...move leaves Singapore (pop. 2.7 million), one of the Pacific Rim's most dynamic centers, as that rarity, a non-Communist country without some edition of the far-flung financial newspaper (worldwide circ. more than 2 million). The Journal's decision also marks the latest step in a long-running feud between the island republic and foreign-based publications in general about the government's right to reply to coverage. The circulation of the Asian Wall Street Journal was cut in 1987, when the paper refused to print in full a lengthy government letter about an article on a proposed...
Another surprise addition to the Presidential Council, Yarin, 50, is co- chairman of the United Workers' Front, formed last year in 29 cities to oppose free-market reforms and defend fellow Russians against attacks by ethnic movements in far-flung Soviet republics. A construction worker with a high school education, he is a member of the Supreme Soviet and is on record as blaming the bureaucracy for the misery of workers' lives, food shortages, infant mortality and pollution. Conservatives have been attracted by his strong personality and persuasive public speaking. The Front claims that Gorbachev is dividing the society into...
...Bush, who turns 65 on June 8, has been a career homemaker and mother of six who moved dozens of times with her husband during his far-flung careers in the oil business, politics and diplomacy. She has gained recognition in recent years for promoting literacy and other causes, including the care of babies with AIDS...
...signal a comprehensive approach would be to maintain full-fledged embassies in four far-flung corners of the Third World that have long been color-coded red on American maps: Afghanistan, Angola, Cuba and Viet Nam. By snubbing those governments in various ways, Washington is doing more than just underscoring its disapproval of their leaders; it is also stubbornly reaffirming the implication that they are minions of Moscow...