Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospital's patient services are as inadequate as its plant. Nurses and aides are in such short supply that the gravely ill sometimes die unnoticed and unattended; fragile premature babies have missed crucial feedings. Surgery patients must wait as long as two months until operating facilities become available. In some minor cases, doctors are known to have used instruments that were just dipped in rusty sinks. On a typical Saturday, the hospital treats 500 emergency patients-nearly twice as many as all of Boston's other hospitals combined-but its scandalous state is so well known to ghetto...
Though bargaining for a wage increase on an industry-wide basis, the steelworkers have also raised thousands of local issues-ranging from demands for cleaner toilets to complaints about poor lighting in plant walkways-that could impede a settlement. But money, says Abel, "is the most important matter"-and the union has some important precedents to lean on. At the very least, it is likely to insist on wage-and-benefit increases approaching the 6% gain won last year by the United Automobile Workers in its settlements with Detroit's Big Three. Larger still is the 6.5% increase that...
...reason for this is that most of the cars, manufactured by Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. automakers, are indistinguishable from American models. Chrysler makes Plymouths and Dodges in its plant in Windsor, Ont., and ships them all over the U.S. Midwest. General Motors assembles Chevrolets at a new plant at Íle Sainte Thérèse, near Montreal, for sale in New England. Mercurys manufactured in Ford's Oakville plant near Toronto are sold in New York. Even smaller American Motors gets into the act, builds cars at Brampton, Ont., for the U.S. market...
There are also advantages for the U.S. automakers, particularly when it comes to imposing economies of mass production on their Canadian operations. Where Chrysler previously had to turn out relatively small quantities of six different models at its Windsor plant, for example, it currently uses that facility to manufacture just two models, the Dodge Polara and Plymouth Fury-both of them in volume. As a result, the plant is fully meshed with the rest of Chrysler's North American operations. The lines discontinued in Windsor are now made entirely in the U.S., but are sold both on the Canadian...
...February, a similarly unattended fire swept through Harvard's Dane Hall, destroying ROTC exams and valuable student records. By March, the University decided to raze what remained of the structure and plant the plot with grass...