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...S.S.A.?six Shan were killed and 31 injured, he says?but also caused U.W.S.A. casualties and sowed panic in its ranks. Today the Wa fortifications below seem deserted, but Yawd Serk's soldiers are taking no chances. Nearby, on grassy slopes recently littered with Wa corpses, they plant fields of punji stakes made from sharpened bamboo to prevent a repeat assault...
...reading the labels on some of the processed foods. We have a farm that [uses] no pesticides, no hormones, no additives--just compost and hard work. And we grow natural. I must say it's very rewarding to see. But the problem is, the critters take half of every plant. They're hard to sell. We haven't trained the critters yet which ones are theirs...
...acquisition of Marathon Oil in 1982, were engineered by strong-willed Chairman Roderick precisely to raise the ante for would-be raiders. With the steel and energy businesses reeling, Roderick last August decided to pick a fight with the United Steelworkers over pay-and-benefit concessions. The resulting 16-plant walkout, involving some 22,000 U.S.W. members, has been ugly at times; strikers have blocked railway spurs at mills to prevent the sale of steel from the company's stockpile...
After a hard day at the auto plant last week, Mark Daniel and his co-workers played a couple of games of softball, then went out for pizza and a few beers. But the scene was not Detroit or any other American factory town. Instead, the unlikely site of Daniel's work and play was Hofu (pop. 120,000), a city 56 miles southwest of Hiroshima in Japan. Daniel, along with 47 other Americans who work for the U.S. subsidiary of Mazda, the third largest Japanese automaker, was finishing up a four-week stint at the firm's Hofu assembly...
Mazda will be bringing hundreds of American workers, most of them supervisors, to Hofu in preparation for next September's opening of its first U.S. factory, an assembly plant in Flat Rock, Mich. Much like the fictional Assan Motors in the recent Michael Keaton movie Gung Ho, Mazda bought a closed-down factory from Ford, which owns 25% of the Japanese company, and is building a new $450 million facility on the site. It is Mazda's largest single investment ever, and the Japanese are sparing no effort to ensure the factory's success...