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Like playing quarterback for his high school football team in Flint, Mich., pitching for the University of Michigan, earning the 1987 Sullivan Award as America's best amateur athlete, winning the gold-medal baseball game in the Seoul Olympics and being drafted No. 1 by the Angels. Though he is expected to open the season in the AA or AAA minors, for now Abbott's shirt says ANGELS. "Just looking around at everything here," he says, "it hits you. A big- league camp...
...annual cost of $750,000, Aetna Life and Casualty teaches 500 employees basic reading, writing and arithmetic in its gleaming eight-story Institute for Corporate Education in Hartford. Since 1982 the General Motors Truck and Bus Group plant in Flint Township, Mich., has offered its 3,000 workers high school classes and one-on-one tutoring in a cluster of rooms overlooking the shop floor. The center has granted 14 high school diplomas...
...point is not lost on the rank and file. Jane Conrad, 45, a $14-an-hour GM press operator, missed out on a supervisor's job because she had not finished high school. So the mother of six enrolled in GM's Flint Township Learning Lab this year. Subjects included a thorough review of fractions, reading comprehension and English literature. Conrad, who received a high school diploma this past summer, is concerned about the increasing demands of automation at the plant. Says she: "If you don't have the basic training, some of it can be hard to keep...
Some 50 miles north, in Flint, the recession never ended, and more Reagan Democrats are returning to their roots. Reagan carried Genesee County only narrowly in 1984. With unemployment still at 14%, disillusion is palpable. Gerald Robinson, with 22 years of seniority, feels secure in his GM production job and agrees with Bush about capital punishment. But he will vote Democratic this time because he fears that Reaganomics is ruining American industry. James and Martha Hurry are doing all right today; their snug bungalow was paid off many years ago, and they receive $20,000 a year in pension payments...
...acre site, even though two of Savannah River's five reactors are shut down permanently, and the others are not allowed to run at full power in part because of deficiencies in their emergency cooling systems. Still, the plant is the sole supplier of plutonium and tritium, the flint and steel of nuclear warheads. While the nation probably has all the plutonium it needs, tritium, which enhances plutonium's yield, has a half-life of twelve years and must be continuously produced to maintain the nation's nuclear stockpile...