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...contracts settled since April, the United Steelworkers has given wage- ) and-benefits concessions to LTV, Inland Steel, National Steel and Bethlehem, the third-largest manufacturer. National Steel's workers accepted a $1.50-an- hour cut, reducing hourly labor costs to $22.72, and LTV cut its costs by $3.60 an hour, to $22.60. USX negotiators have insisted that the firm needs a savings of at least $2 an hour, to about $23, to stay competitive. USX underscored that demand last week when it reported that second-quarter earnings had plummeted by 92%, to $14 million. A major factor was the firm...
...send the cadets on field training exercisesto Fort Devens [in Ayer, Mass.] once a semesterwhere they learn about leadership and teamwork inland navigation, patrolling, and competitiveexercise," Welch says. "Seniors run the wholeorganization, they lead and command the cadetbatallions...
...radar sites, were the first to reach the target cities, approaching at 6:54 p.m. Precisely at 7 p.m., the squadron of A-6 fighters roared over Benghazi from the Gulf of Sidra and began bombing the airfield. In Tripoli, part of the F-111 squadron had circled around inland and approached from the south. The city was ablaze with light, and not a single air-raid alarm sounded. "We were able to see the hits," recalled one Navy airman, who had spent many hours studying photos of his target. "They looked just where they should have been...
President Alfonsin's notion provoked immediate comparisons with Brazil, which in 1960 moved its capital inland from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia. Today Rio de Janeiro continues to flourish as the country's cultural center, while politicians and diplomats regard Brasilia as a well-intentioned but disappointing experiment in decentralization...
...inevitably life in the Kuna's San Blas archipelago has subtly changed. Many of the men have left the islands for jobs inland. Tourism and rampant drug smuggling along the coast have transformed the Kuna's former open welcome of Americans into the almost xenophobic suspicion with which they have always regarded Latinos. The number of day trippers, drawn by the Kuna's renowned cloth art, the mola, has multiplied...