Word: flints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fire from the company's unions and the communities whose futures are now very much in doubt. The most emotionally charged reactions came from Michigan. GM's home base is targeted for half of the first round of 17,000 cutbacks and the closing of an engine plant in Flint and an assembly line in Willow Run in favor of an assembly line in Arlington, Texas. Michigan U.A.W. leaders raised the threat of strikes against further actions. Most industry analysts agree that GM needs to shrink its inflated bureaucracy and underutilized capacity. But is the company quietly crafting another strategy...
Flutist Beth Anderson and pianist Carla Flint--perform chamber music selections. Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge. Thursday...
...betters, Mark Twain's Roughing It and Life on the Mississippi. The author's visceral decision to explore one American locality was an intuitive leap from the restlessness of Blue Highways. And it was a leap toward the nation's center. He had seen Chase County's Flint Hills and the bits of remaining tallgrass prairie as a boy. He was attracted in part because the historical past was very recent (white settlement began in 1856) and because the present is isolated from shopping- mall modernity, so that both are faded like old jeans...
...socially aware urban planners, to create endless residential communities that still relied on Downtown for everything they needed. And the naive 80's hope that a "Big Project" Downtown would bring people back was a disaster. Riddled with corruption, ideas like Detroit's Renaissance Center turned out more like Flint's Auto World than Boston's Faneuil Hall...
...forced down, those at the bottom have been raised a bit. Uless Carter, 75, one of the people in The Promised Land, Nicholas Lemann's chronicle of the black migration, is back in Clarksdale, living in a retirement community. He spent 38 years in Chicago, an additional six in Flint, Mich. The stories of change lured him home. "There are black people working in the banks and stores now," he says. "They treat you now like a human being. It is wonderful. My prayers have been answered." So little asked, so little yet received...