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...temporary exception to the University's dictum that each school must raise its own funds, the University offset the school's deficit while Bok and Allison launched a fundraising campaign. During his first eight years as dean, Allison raised about $50 million for the school. Its endowment and capital plant now has an estimated worth of more than $100 million...
Honda's rivals are only beginning to catch up. Nissan began building autos last year in Smyrna, Tenn., and Toyota is constructing a plant in Georgetown, Ky., that will start assembling vehicles in 1988. But Honda is not standing still either. The automaker began building engines at a separate plant near Marysville in July 1985. It is now gearing up a second Marysville assembly line that will increase the factory's U.S. production to 360,000 cars annually...
Honda's Marysville operations are helping to revolutionize the way that American autoworkers view their jobs. The 3,263 workers at the plant are divided into only two job classifications -- assembly and maintenance -- compared with as many as 100 in some unionized U.S. factories. This leaves Honda workers free to perform many different functions, as dictated by the ebb and flow of the assembly line. While their $12.25 hourly wage is about $1 below the United Auto Workers average, employees and their families enjoy unusual benefits, including access to the company's gym and pool...
...U.A.W. has so far been unsuccessful in its attempts to unionize the Honda plant. A few workers at Marysville complain about the company's "almost military" adherence to schedules and procedures. But, says Roger Hammonds, a 41-year-old production coordinator, "this is the best place I've ever worked. It's the kind of job we idealized in high school. The philosophy, the job satisfaction -- it never came true for me until I came to work for Honda...
...debate was as much about the future of atomic power everywhere as it was about a single plant in the Ukraine. In the months since the Chernobyl blast sent clouds of radioactive debris into the air, 31 Soviet citizens have died and thousands of acres of prime land have been rendered useless. A major goal of the conference was to understand the accident well enough to prevent a recurrence...