Word: greenock
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...clearest possible terms, which I hope every person in every land will hear: all of this I have had to endure for something that I did not do." - Proclaiming his innocence in a statement issued by his lawyers after he left Scotland's Greenock prison, saying he faced an appalling choice - "to risk dying in prison in the hope that my name is cleared posthumously or to return home still carrying the weight of the guilty verdict, which will never now be lifted" (New York Times...
...also meant shedding 10,000 to 13,000 staff in Europe by the end of June. Lower profits and high labor costs have forced IBM to rationalize a business structure that has changed little in decades. Some of the 2,800 staff at IBM's customer service base at Greenock in Scotland are likely to go, as are many marketing and management jobs at the company's panregional headquarters in Tour Descartes, Paris. "Things that used to be formally done there will now be moved to the ladies and gentlemen in the field," says Fred McNeese, IBM's spokesman...
Unfortunately, no breaks are available in Greenock, a depressed shipbuilding town in Scotland, where all the yards are closed. And for a kid nearing his 16th birthday, Liam has a lot of problems. His beloved mom is in jail for drug dealing. Her boyfriend and father are brutal small-time crooks trying to get Liam to induce her back into the criminal life even before her sentence is up. His refusal leads to a beating--and to dreams of revenge and rescue...