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Despite the upheaval in the domestic industry, Bowles still runs up against the notion that because the company outsources, it cares more about profits than jobs. "That whole thought process is so annoying to me," she says. "How many jobs can we have if we don't make a profit? If retailers will only sell goods made here and consumers will only buy products made here, I'll reopen all my plants here. I'd love to do that. But that just isn't going to happen...
Douglass was outraged when he heard about the meeting. In Central and South America, he noted, "distinct races live peaceably together in the enjoyment of equal rights" without civil wars. And he sneered at the notion that blacks were the cause of the war. A horse thief did not apologize for his theft by blaming the horse. "No, Mr. President, it is not the innocent horse that makes the horse thief ... but the cruel and brutal cupidity of those who wish to possess horses, money and Negroes by means of theft, robbery and rebellion." He called Lincoln "a genuine representative...
More substantial difficulties with the French will involve the agricultural trade issue, among others. Says an official in Paris: "We fear an attempt to put the European Community's agricultural policy on trial." The French agree in general, however, with the notion of a more cooperative approach to international exchange rates and monetary policy. Indeed, they claim with some reason to have pioneered that stand as far back as 1983. Thus the French may find themselves for once on the same ideological side as the U.S. As one French official puts it, "The Americans are no longer the most stubbornly...
...this is only some of the bad news. The figures refute the impression, based on a 1979 Census Bureau study, that only one-half of 1% of Americans over 14 are illiterate. This survey assumed that anyone who had finished the fifth grade could read, and fostered the notion that most illiterates are elderly rural people who never got that far in school. The new study shows that the majority of nonreaders are under 50 (see chart) and many have attended high school. Particularly troubling is a 22% illiteracy rate among blacks, many of whom were moved through school...
There can be no one left at the network who has failed to get the message. Since Capital Cities Communications assumed control of ABC in January, the newly merged company has embarked on a stringent cost-cutting campaign, an alien notion in the high-living world of network television. Layoffs have hit nearly every part of ABC's TV operation. More than 70 people were let go in the news division; some 300 positions were cut at ABC-owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. Such familiar trappings of the executive life-style as limousines...