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...care about handing out benefits, and applying it 100 years later in a totally different age." The National Governors' Association, in fact, is so worried by the high court's ruling that it may establish a legal defense fund to help its members combat the expected onslaught of suits...
...SASOL bombings seemed to lend considerable substance to Botha's recent warnings that a "total onslaught" is being prepared against white rule. To counter the rising militancy, the government this month has presented Parliament with a constitutional reform bill that would give a minor consultative role to non-whites but not to African blacks. Botha's limited racial reforms, however, fall tragically short of even moderate black requests for parliamentary representation and an end to racial discrimination. Nationalist guerrillas have now shown that they are ready to go after South Africa's industry to back up their...
...light electronics companies clustered in Santa Clara County's famed Silicon Valley flourish along with the aerospace industry. But after flashing into the age of microprocessors during the past decade, the microchip industry is drawing up its wagons, wondering if it can withstand an onslaught from the Orient. Warns Hewlett-Packard President John Young: "The Japanese are learning how the game is played and how it's scored...
...confront the onslaught of bargaining battles, the University designed a standard three-year package offering successive 10-, 9- and 8-per-cent annual wage increases. The "10-9-8" deal, as it became known, was fashioned under the assumption that economic issues would have primacy in negotiation sessions. Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations and chief negotiator for the University, says the 10-9-8-- roughly a $1000 raise for "the average worker"--also represented an effort on the part of Harvard to compensate for the settlements of two years ago, which "turned out not that generous...
Autos are the most visible and painful example, but far from the only one. In recent years one stumbling U.S. industry after another-from shipbuilding to textiles to color television sets-has succumbed to the onslaught of aggressive and efficient foreign competitors, especially from Japan...