Word: owen
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Chrysler's unions now want a share of the company's new prosperity. Said United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber last week: "Iacocca knows full well that it was the Chrysler workers, more than anyone, who made the sacrifices." The company's U.A.W. employees gave up nearly $1 billion in wages and benefits. Chrysler workers currently make $2 less an hour than their counterparts at General Motors and Ford. This week Chrysler and the U.A.W. will begin talks about immediate modifications of the current contract. An agreement could give workers at least a $1-an-hour raise...
Jenkins' decision surprised the Social Democrats. Formed by disaffected Laborites in 1981, the S.D.P. won only six seats in the election but in an alliance with the Liberals attracted 26% of the vote. Jenkins received poor reviews as a campaigner, while Deputy Leader David Owen, 44, who served as Foreign Secretary during the government of Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, emerged as articulate and energetic. Jenkins could have stayed on, but he graciously stepped aside and allowed Owen to take charge...
...Limb, describing a gent she once had an affair with. Her enigmatic references to Gerry have kicked off, in the land of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, a full-blown, real-life mystery. Labor Leader Michael Foot, 69. denied any role in the affair. So did David Owen, 44, Tony Benn, 58, and Peter Shore, 59, who last week all raised their pinkies in emphatic, if somewhat wistful, denial of ever having had anything to do with MacLaine. Then she allowed that perhaps she did some Gerrymandering of the clues to conceal her ex-lover's identity. So still...
Many delegates questioned the selection of Owen Bieber, 53, to succeed Fraser as president. Bieber, a relative unknown, who had been director of the U.A.W. General Motors department, was nominated by the union's international executive board last November. "Bieber's an honest, hardworking, committed person," said one official. "The question is, has he got the qualities to lead the union enthusiastically? When he was in charge at General Motors, his first bargaining session ended up in concessions." Nonetheless, the convention unanimously elected the 6-ft. 5-in. Bieber...
Rockaby is a beautifully written monologue whose excruciatingly bitter message becomes very hard to endure even in such a short performance. Owen rocks herself to death, coordinating her rocking with the rhthym of her repetitive, sing-song phrases. "In the end, the day came, time she stopped going to and fro, high and low..." As she rocks more and more violently, and finally falls over, the repetition becomes unbearable. Yet the play also has a peaceful quality which, when juxtaposed against the underlying suicidal throbbing, stimulates the imagination. Although the director provides little in the form of lighting or props...