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...almost five years, members of the United Auto Workers have given up wage gains and made other sacrifices to help U.S. carmakers survive. Now, mindful of Detroit's record profits and the fat bonuses that auto executives have been paying themselves, U.A.W. leaders are entering the final lap of perhaps the most crucial contract talks in the union's 49-year history. If a new three-year agreement is not reached before the old one expires at midnight on Sept. 14, as many as 465,000 autoworkers may walk out in a strike that could deeply wound...
...marketplace is full of ailing companies. Gavilan Computer in Campbell raised $23.9 million in venture capital two years ago to help launch its first product, a 9-lb. lap-size computer, but was slow to develop an improved model. It has laid off 210 of its 280 workers, and is now looking for additional capital. Convergent Technologies has also stumbled over its portable. The Santa Clara firm introduced its lap-size WorkSlate a year ago to enthusiastic reviews. But the company could not make enough of these computers to satisfy the initial demand, and then ran into production snafus. After...
...seen how it works out in practice." The commission's report summed up the situation: "An adversarial relationship between the media and the Government, including the military, is healthy and helps guarantee that both institutions do a good job. The appropriate media role [is] neither that of a lap dog nor an attack dog, but rather a watchdog." -By Janice Castro. Reported by Ross H. Munro/Washington
...some delirious need to wave American flags has surfaced, fanning a passion previously associated with burning them. The sentimental tears and cheers of the pre-Olympic torch run turned into unembarrassed howls and shrieks last week for U.S. medalists taking a transcontinental victory lap from Los Angeles to Washington to New York to Disney World to Dallas. "I thought they'd be bored with us by now," said Steve Lundquist, the swimmer. "This is fantastic...
...last marathon runner we watched emerge from the tunnel into the Coliseum was a Haitian with a lovely, euphonious name, Dieudonne Lamothe. He ran his last lap stolidly, engulfed by applause, and when he crossed the finish line he was the 78th runner to do so. The orange Halloween-hat traffic cones used to guide Lamothe and his swifter brethren onto the track from the tunnel were picked up; the tunnel was blocked off so that such scheduled rituals as the awarding of the final medals, the reintroduction of the athletes, the arrival of a spaceship, the performance...