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...report provides fresh ammunition for Legal Services critics, who will again try to cut back the program in the current session of Congress. The LSC received $241 million for this fiscal year, down from its $321 million peak during fiscal...
Maytag, a leading maker of home appliances, dubbed its first wringer "the hired girl" and cranked out some 2,000 machines a day during the peak production year of 1948. Workers put in 60-hour weeks to fill the demand for washers that cleaned the diapers for the baby boom. Now output is down to several dozen...
Operating on the common wisdom that pro-choice groups should "know thine enemy," Boston journalist Connie Paige has written The right to Lifers, an exhaustive and occasionally exhausting account of the anti-abortion movement, Paige describes the movement at its peak, a blatant, sensationalistic drive for power. For example, "Stop the Baby killers" was a political front organization to channel money to pro-life congressional candidates in 1980. Asked about the group's name, an organizer stated, "Frankly, that was brutal, But we had to get attention or we would have lost our money...
...chipmakers are looking ahead to production of a 32-bit microprocessor, which is expected to have its peak sales in about five years and has twice the computational power of the 16-bit chip that is the current industry pacesetter. Western Electric, Hewlett-Packard and NCR Corp. have already unveiled 32-bit chips in hopes of passing Intel and Motorola in the microprocessor race...
...executive's most important task is to spur subordinates to peak performance. Grove emphasizes reducing what he calls an employee's CUA factor, for complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity, to improve teamwork and increase productivity. When the CUA factor is unavoidably high, as when an outside executive is hired to run a troubled division, Grove says, the best advice is to cross your fingers and hope for the best...