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...Some of us are going to lose our jobs, but we don't know who, or where." Feelings of helplessness were hardly confined to the South. Said a 15-year employee at an RJR Nabisco cookie plant in Fair Lawn, N.J.: "When you're at the bottom of the ladder and you got money men at the top, you take it one day at a time...
...Losing five players always hurts," Co-Captain Doug Lifford said. "I think we've made up for it with the freshmen. Three of them are in the top five of the ladder. They should make a big contribution...
...last line can be typed in: George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States. For nearly a quarter-century in public life, Bush has upheld the old-line patrician virtues of duty, service, loyalty and self-effacement. These qualities served him well as he clambered up the ladder of achievement. But on a cloudy Tuesday night in November, uplifted by the votes of more than 46 million Americans, Bush was elevated onto a higher plane. The years in the shadows, the natural deference to others, the small humiliations of a perpetual office seeker are all behind...
...summer as a garage mechanic. After joining GM as an engineer in 1958, he designed a front-wheel-drive transmission for the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado. Stempel's success with the front-wheel drive, a radical departure that later became a standard feature, accelerated his movement up the corporate ladder...
Fire Lieutenant Thomas C. Reagan said calls about the fire began at 2:23 a.m. bringing three fire engines, two ladder trucks, and a rescue vehicle were immediately dispatched to the scene...