Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Port Elizabeth court decision grew out of a 1987 incident in which the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, head of the opposition Labor Party and a member of the Botha Cabinet, took a dip at King's Beach. His action drew a strong rebuke from President Botha, who threatened to drop him from the Cabinet, dissolve Parliament and call a general election unless Hendrickse apologized. Hendrickse backed down, but two Port Elizabeth city councilors fought the restrictive beach ordinance up to the Supreme Court. The stricture was ruled invalid on a technicality, and Hendrickse announced that he was prepared to test...
Roemer has hardly escaped criticism. Labor and education leaders alike call him unapproachable. He has irritated teachers by suggesting that they face periodic competency reviews and surrender their system of lifelong tenure. Proposed cuts of $50 million in the state's much admired charity hospital system have caused anxiety and protest in some localities...
...major presence overseas, especially in Europe, but its operations around the world often duplicated one another's efforts. A European subsidiary, for example, would make cars for its market, while Detroit was building similar vehicles for the U.S. There was remarkably little coordination, specialization or division of labor, even though domestic and foreign vehicles were becoming more alike...
Another factor in Ford's surge is a new spirit of cooperation between labor and management. Last September the United Auto Workers union, which represents 104,000 Ford employees, agreed to accept a contract that calls for a moderate average wage increase of 3% this year. The pact includes concessions by both sides. The union said it would help Petersen achieve his goal of creating more Japanese-style teamwork. In exchange, Ford agreed to a provision that bars the company from laying off workers in all but the sharpest of economic downturns. Says Ford Executive Vice President Philip Benton...
...Toyota, are expected to produce 2.2 million cars annually by 1992, up from 618,000 in 1987. That will surely cut into the sales of the U.S. Big Three, which produced 15 million vehicles last year. Detroit fears the new competition because the Japanese plants, which generally employ nonunion labor, have been able to keep operating costs 15% to 20% below those of the Big Three. "We have more vacations, more holidays and more relief time than the Japanese," says Ford Vice Chairman Harold ("Red") Poling. "Those things will be an impediment to achieving the same degree of productivity...