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...point, while losing gracefully on pensions and salaries. Admitted Phil Garner, second baseman and player representative for the Pittsburgh Pirates: "We had to give up a great deal to get a settlement. We don't know if it's going to be worth it in the long haul...
...gathered limbs and rusting metal appliances, which they pile neatly in front of the gate, offerings to the god of civil disobedience. True to their part of the script, police come out from behind the gate, from a cordon, and let bulldozers push debris inside the fence, where dumptrucks haul it away. Across the street, Seabrook police--small town cops not prepared by experience or temperament for a weekend like this--try to arrest one young man for flattening the tire of a parked patrolcar. A crowd circles the men, and through a narrow gap between a parked cars...
...declines were seen as confirmation of that prediction. Insisted one Federal Reserve governor last week: "Our strategy for fighting inflation is agreed on completely. We are focusing on money supply as the best way to combine growth with reduced inflation over the long haul. If that means broader swings in interest rates in the short...
...unmatched in the industry. Indeed, in an age when much of American business seems to have slipped into a search for quick profits and is marked by shoddy workmanship, the 104,000 engineers, designers, draftsmen, machinists, executives and salesmen of Boeing stand out as proof that, over the long haul, the only lasting standard of value in any market is quality itself. Said Air Force Secretary Hans Mark of the Pentagon's decision to award the cruise contract to Boeing: "Both contractors turned in good products. The differences between the two designs were small, but they were significant enough...
...expecting one or more big Government contracts like the C-5A transport plane, the TFX fighter aircraft or the SST supersonic, Boeing grew fat and sloppy. Seattle's nickname for the firm was particularly apt: "The Lazy B." The company plunged ahead anyway and kept turning out short-haul 737 and 747 jumbos amid bottlenecks and shortages. Then the market collapsed due to the 1969 recession and earnings slumped, from $83 million in 1968 to $10 million the following year. Boeing in the late 1960s was becoming the Chrysler Corp...