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...partial shutdown at GM came at a very healthy time for the U.S auto industry. For the first eight months of the year, car sales are up 24.1 % over the same period in 1983, and trucks are up 36.5%. Before the strike hit, the industry was headed for its second-best year in history, with sales of 14.9 million cars and trucks...
...witch. In a 1648 treatise, John Stearne explained witchcraft as a woman's game on the ground that females are more "revengeful" than men because of Satan's "prevailing with Eve." Such reasoning ensured that any rise in the standing of women could only be partial and restricted...
...which has been carefully controlled by the military. Since the generals came to power in a 1964 coup, five of their number have served as President. But the last two generals have been gradually carrying out an abertura, or political opening, which has included amnesty for political prisoners, a partial lifting of censorship and more opposition-party participation in government. The results of the conventions, however, could signal not only the end of military control but the beginning of rule by an opposition party. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party chose as its candidate Tancredo Neves, 74, a moderate, avuncular lawyer...
...nationalistic." Some entrepreneurs and government officials are hopeful about a Community initiative called the European Strategic Program for Research and Development in Information Technologies (ESPRIT). Its proponents believe that the $1.3 billion five-year plan for cooperative research in microelectronics and data processing could lead to at least a partial, Europe-wide standardization in products of the future. Twelve participating ESPRIT companies agreed in March to adopt common specifications for computers and office equipment, and telecommunications officials have begun to discuss common guidelines for buying new equipment. Last March, French President François Mitterrand visited California's Silicon...
...arrival of the new system necessitated the partial renovation of the Crimson building, located at 14 Plympton St. A new partition has been built in the newsroom to house the machines, in order to provide a cleaner and more secure working environment...