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...Beach, Calif. She was relieved to keep her job through several rounds of layoffs. But as the ranks thinned, she lost her seniority edge and ended up as a clerk making $44,000 a year with no possibility of overtime. "I cried for a month," says Harris, a single parent with a 13-year-old son. "You do more with fewer people. They push and push." She is struggling with her mortgage, clipping grocery coupons and living in fear of losing her job. Says Harris: "I never miss a day of work...
...Instead they are led through yoga-influenced stimulation exercises, massage, games and a variety of rocking and balancing exercises, accompanied by their moms, who get into postpartum shape by doing more traditional poses. According to DeAnsin Goodson Parker, a child psychologist and author of Yoga Baby, parent-child yoga classes provide special "relating time" between child and parent. Yoga also stimulates the immune and circulation systems of a baby, aids digestion and can lead to better sleeping habits. --L.McL...
Ally concedes that Timothy will own companies that "are not wholly righteous," such as Dell, which provides benefits to gay partners of employees. But Ally avoids "those that are pursuing an unholy agenda," including, he says, AOL Time Warner (TIME's parent company) and Disney, which create "antifamily entertainment" and support "nonmarried lifestyles...
...have set a precedent with its new Cadillac plant in Lansing, Mich., which opened last year. Be more flexible about work rules, and let us outsource more, GM said, or we'll set up shop in Mexico or Canada (where the Canadian Auto Workers split from its American parent in 1985). The plant is now a model of Detroit lean and mean. Its vehicles rate second, to Lexus, in initial quality. Suppliers deliver components every four hours (vs. every two weeks at some GM plants), and management lets workers freeze the lines if they notice a component or assembly flaw...
...much as $44 million - had competed for that contract. Bombardier, while proud of its status as the world's third largest aircraftmaker (after Boeing and Airbus), is feeling more and more like Goliath to Embraer's David. Under new CEO Paul Tellier, a proven cost cutter, Bombardier Inc., the parent company of Bombardier Aerospace, is paring down its operations to become nimbler and more focused on its core businesses, making trains and planes. "Rigor and consolidation are the order of the day," Tellier said recently, as he announced plans to raise $1 billion by selling Bombardier's recreational-products division...