Word: planning
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...more of the Clinton plan will be carried out overtly by diplomats, bankers and even disk jockeys. To compete with Milosevic's formidable propaganda machine, the U.S. Information Agency plans to ring Serbia's border with six radio transmitters that will beam Western news programs into the country 24 hours a day. Last month Robert Gelbard, U.S. special envoy to the Balkans, flew to Serbia's rebellious republic of Montenegro to meet with some 20 Serbian opposition leaders and plead with them to join forces against the regime...
...many of them are fighting to change that status. Just two weeks ago, a class action was filed against Atlantic Richfield for allegedly misclassifying oil-field workers as temps in an effort to exclude them from company health- and retirement- benefit plans. ARCO denies the charge and says the plaintiffs do not work for them but for oil-field service firms. In May, as Microsoft was handing full-timers a pay raise, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled that as many as 10,000 former temps should have been allowed to take part in the employee stock-purchase...
...courts have said the charade is up," says Courtney. A band of 16 Microsoft permatemps has formed a collective-bargaining group allied with WashTech. The larger fight at Microsoft is far from over. The company is appealing the ruling; class-action claims over access to its 401(k) plan and health and other benefits are pending...
DOUGLAS WALLER, a former congressional staff member, knows the defense industry from the inside out, having reported on everything from the U.S. invasion of Panama to the plan to thwart Osama Bin Laden. To bring us this week's story on the U.S. plot to oust Slobodan Milosevic, Waller, our State Department correspondent, canvassed officials in the intelligence community and the State Department, as well as nongovernment agencies that provide aid overseas. "No one person has all the information," he says. "There is not a silver bullet of a source." His experience suggests that covering the diplomacy...
...information here in the hopes that conspiracy theorists will get off the U.N.'s back and start freaking out about Viacom. I think this will help my parent company, Time Warner, and thus get me in good with whoever runs this place. This is my version of a business plan...