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...Petula," 1968: The sponsors, Chrysler Motor Corp., try unsuccessfully to quash a shocking sequence in this Petula Clark special. In the sequence, Petula's white hand rests momentarily on the black arm of Guest Star Harry Belafonte...
...marijuana speech than a legitimate examination of management practices. Having been a therapist for adolescents in a rehab program, I can say marijuana is not the innocuous drug Ehrenreich considers it to be. Marijuana is a significant problem for employers, individuals and society as a whole. Impaired motor skills and judgment, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, antisocial behavior and psychological addiction may all be related to marijuana use. BRET J. HERROD Highlands Ranch, Colo...
...Decrease in motor-vehicle theft, according to BJS figures...
There was more heat than light yesterday as a House committee began hearings into the tangled relationship between the Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone/Firestone. Firestone CEO John Lampe and Ford head Jaques Nasser presented widely differing explanations for safety problems with the Ford Explorer equipped with Firestone's Wilderness AT tires, and the committee chair, Louisiana Rep. Billy Tauzin, muddied things further by suggesting that seven of the tire models Ford is using as replacements might have higher failure rates than the Firestone tires. TIME's John Greenwald has been covering the Ford/Firestone inquiry and he spoke with TIME.com about...
Critics protest that forced ranking can be harsh and arbitrary. But that hasn't kept a growing number of companies from joining such firms as Enron, Ford Motor and Microsoft in adopting them. "What it all boils down to is who is in the room fighting for you," says an Enron worker who was cut from the herd. "I didn't have people there to talk for me, and I felt like I got screwed." Counters Craig Taylor, a manager in Enron's commodity-trading department: "You have to know where you stand, and I believe the system does...