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...produced by just 250 firms. American companies must learn more about foreign markets and how to sell there. Concedes Malcolm Stamper, vice chairman of Boeing: "Even if the Japanese completely removed restraints on U.S. imports, there would still be a trade deficit because we haven't done all our homework...
...hated school. From age twelve or 13 I knew I wanted to be a movie director, and I didn't think that science or math or foreign languages were going to help me turn out the little 8-mm sagas I was making to avoid homework. During class I'd draw a little image on the margin of each page of the history or lit. book and flip the pages to make animated cartoons. I did just enough homework to get promoted every year with my friends and not fall to the wrath of my academically minded father. I give...
...report for the ILGWU documents such abuses in the nation's nonunion shops as subminimum wages, homework, excessively long hours and unsafe working conditions. There are an estimated 1,200 sweatshops in Los Angeles, and 2,000 to 3,000 of them may exist in New York City. Women in New York's , Chinatown work nine or ten hours a day with only Sundays off, taking home a mere $80 to $120 a week. They complain of headaches and stomach pains, caused by exhaustion and strain. "They are really suffering from depression," says Chia-ling Kuo, a research associate...
...trigger date, after which the barriers against outsiders will be dropped. The legislation was approved last week by the House Banking Committee. Said William Dabaghi, general counsel to the Coalition for Regional Banking and Economic Development, which represents medium-size lenders: "Unfortunately, our opponents did their homework and managed to convince a number of the swing voters on the committee to go along with the trigger...
...seasoned television reporter from Chicago who joined the show in 1982, and George, a former Miss America with no newsgathering experience. Try as he might to banter with George, Kurtis still acted a bit like a college senior who is flattered to help the head cheerleader with her homework but is flustered by her answers. After weeks of rumors, Kurtis left the show last week; though a contract has not been signed yet, he likely will return to CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago. Veteran CBS Reporter Bob Schieffer will join George until a new co-host is named, probably...