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...David M. Roderick called the company's action a "facility rationalization." In fact, its action was a meticulous paring of U.S. Steel's capacity to make, forge and finish steel. Mills, foundries and blast furnaces in such famed Big Steel locations as Gary, Ind., Fairless and Homestead, Pa., and the South Works in Chicago will be shut down. Plans for a rail mill in Chicago were dropped, despite union work-rule concessions and tax breaks from the Illinois state government. Mining and chemical operations will be pruned, along with fabricating facilities in some eastern states...
Says Graphic Designer Jan Souza, 34, of Cambridge, Mass.: "He's a humanist hero who fills a need in our technological soci ety." Notes Barbara Shewchuk, 28, a stenographer from Bridgeport, Pa.: "The fact that Doctor Who cares about all life forms shows that you can trust...
...such small district is Waynesboro, Pa. By investing $2.6 million of this year's $12.6 million budget in the fund, Waynesboro School District Business Manager Wallace Jones expects to increase interest earnings by 20%, to $200,000, which may be used to buy equipment, such as computers, and reduce property taxes. Says Jones: "Anything you can do to lessen the burden on the taxpayer is very important...
Johnstown, Pa...
Equally tough bargaining methods are being used in the steel industry, where extensive concessions by labor have still not led to company profits. Last week U.S. Steel told 10,000 workers in Chicago, Cleveland, Birmingham, Johnstown, Pa., and Trenton, N.J., that all or part of their plants would be shut down unless they granted concessions that go beyond those in the basic steel contract. The company wants reductions in health benefits, work-rule changes and more flexibility in the use of outside contractors...